Amour 18

Some, when in ryme they of their Loues doe tell,

With flames and lightning their exordiums paynt:

Some inuocate the Gods, some spirits of Hell,

And heauen, and earth doe with their woes acquaint.

_Elizia_ is too hie a seate for mee:

I wyll not come in _Stixe_ or _Phlegiton_;

The Muses nice, the Furies cruell be,

I lyke not _Limbo_, nor blacke _Acheron_,

Spightful _Erinnis_ frights mee with her lookes,

My manhood dares not with foule _Ate_ mell:

I quake to looke on _Hecats_ charming bookes,

I styll feare bugbeares in _Apollos_ cell.

I passe not for _Minerua_ nor _Astraea_.

But euer call vpon diuine _Idea_.

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