VI. TO GEORGE CHAPMAN ON HIS OVID.[176]

[Footnote 176: From "Ovid's Banquet of | SENCE. | A Coronet

for his Mistresse Philosophie, and his amorous | _Zodiacke_. | With a

translation of a Latine coppie, | written by a Fryer, Anno Dom. 1400.

| _Quis leget hæc? Nemo Hercule Nemo, | vel duo vel nemo._ Persius. |

AT LONDON, | Printed by J. R. for Richard Smith. _Anno Dom._

1595. | " See our Memorial-Introduction. G.]

_I. D. of the Middle Temple._

Onely that eye which for true loue doth weepe,

Onely that hart which tender loue doth pierse,

May read and vnderstand this sacred vierse--

For other wits too misticall and deepe:

Betweene these hallowed leaues _Cupid_ dooth keepe

The golden lesson of his second Artist;

For loue, till now, hath still a Maister mist,

Since _Ouids_ eyes were closed with iron sleepe;

But now his waking soule in _Chapman_ liues,

Which showes so well the passions of his soule;

And yet this Muse more cause of wonder giues,

And doth more Prophet-like loues art enroule:

For Ouids soule, now growne more old and wise,

Poures foorth it selfe in deeper misteries.

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