AN AMOVRET ANACREONTICK

Most good, most faire,

Or Thing as rare,

To call you's lost;

For all the cost

Words can bestow,

So poorely show

Vpon your prayse,

That all the wayes

Sense hath, come short:

Whereby Report 10

Falls them vnder;

That when Wonder

More hath seyzed,

Yet not pleased,

That it in kinde

Nothing can finde,

You to expresse:

Neuerthelesse,

As by Globes small,

This Mightie ALL 20

Is shew'd, though farre

From Life, each Starre

A World being:

So wee seeing

You, like as that,

Onely trust what

Art doth vs teach;

And when I reach

At Morall Things,

And that my Strings 30

Grauely should strike,

Straight some mislike

Blotteth mine ODE.

As with the Loade,

The Steele we touch,

Forced ne'r so much,

Yet still remoues

To that it loues,

Till there it stayes;

So to your prayse 40

I turne euer,

And though neuer

From you mouing,

Happie so louing.

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