<p>THE dier, loe, in smoke, and heate doth toile,<lb/> Mennes fickle mindes to please, with sundrie hues:<lb/> And though hee learne newe collours still to boile,<lb/> Yet varijng men, woulde faine some newer choose:<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_13801"/>And seeke for that, which arte can not deuise,<lb/> When that the ould, mighte verie well suffise.<lb/> And some of them, here brieflie to recite,<lb/> And to declare, with whome they best agree:<lb/> For mourners, blacke, for the religious, white,<lb/> Which is a signe, of conscience pure, and free.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_13802"/>The greene, agrees with them in hope that liue:<lb/> And eeke to youthe, this colour wee do giue.<lb/> The yelowe next, vnto the couetous wighte,<lb/> And vnto those, whome ielousie doth fret.<lb/> The man refus'd, in Taunye doth delite,<lb/> The collour Redde, let martiall captaine get.<lb/> And little boies, whome shamefastnes did grace,<lb/> The <rs>Romaines</rs> deck'd, in Scarlet like their face.<lb/> The marriners, the Blewe becometh well,<lb/> Bicause it showes the colour of the sea:<lb/> And Prophettes, that of thinges deuine foretell,<lb/> The men content, like Violet arraie.<lb/> And laste, the poore and meaner sorte prouide,<lb/> The medley, graye, and russett, neuer dy'de.<lb/> <pb n="embstma_1667_fac135"/> Loe here, a fewe of colours plaine expreste,<lb/> And eeke the men, with whome they best agree:<lb/> Yet euerie one, doth thinke his hewe the beste,<lb/> And what one likes, an other lothes to see:<lb/> For Nature thoughe ten thousande colours haue,<lb/> Yet vnto man, more varijng mindes she gaue.<lb/> Nowe straungers, who their countries still commende<lb/> And make vs muse, with colours they recite:<lb/> Maye thinke our lande, small choise of hues doth lende.<lb/> Bycause so fewe, of manie I doe write.<lb/> Yet let them knowe, my Aucthor these presentes,<lb/> Inoughe for those, whome reason still contentes.<lb/> But saye wee lacke, their herbes, their wormes, their flies,<lb/> And want the meanes: their gallant hues to frame.<lb/> Yet <rs>Englande</rs>, hath her store of orient dies,<lb/> And eeke therein, a <persName>DYER</persName> most of fame,<lb/> Who, alwaies hathe so fine and freshe, a hewe,<lb/> That in their landes, the like is not to vewe.<lb/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_13801" lang="la"><name type="author">Ouid.</name> de Trist.<lb/> Infoelix habitum tem-<lb/> poris huius habe<lb/> Nec te purpureo velent<lb/> vaccinia succo:<lb/> Non est conueniens<lb/> luctibus ille color.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_13802" lang="la"><name type="author">Alciat.</name><lb/> Nos sperare docet viri-<lb/> dis. spes dicitur esse<lb/> In viridi quoties irrita<lb/> retro cadit.</gloss> </p>

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