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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p><term id="embstma_1667_21201"/>WHEN frowninge fatall dame, that stoppes our course in fine,<lb/>
        The thred of noble <persName>SVRREYS</persName> life, made hast for to vntwine,<lb/>
        <persName type="mythological">APOLLO</persName> chang'd his cheare, and lay's awaie his lute,<lb/>
        And <persName type="mythological">PALLAS</persName>, and the <rs>Muses</rs> sad, did weare a mourninge sute.<lb/>
        And then, the goulden pen, in case of sables cladde,<lb/>
        Was lock'd in chiste of Ebonie, and to <rs>Parnassus</rs> had.<lb/>
        But, as all times do chaunge, so passions haue their space;<lb/>
        And cloudie skies at lengthe are clear'd, with <persName type="mythological">Phoebus</persName> chearefull face.<lb/>
        For, when that barren verse made <rs>Muses</rs> voide of mirthe:<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_21202"/>Behoulde, <persName type="mythological">LVSINA</persName> sweetelie sounge, of <persName>SIDNEYS</persName> ioyfull birthe.<lb/>
        Whome mightie <persName type="mythological">IOVE</persName> did blesse, with graces from aboue:<lb/>
        On whome, did fortune frendlie smile, and nature most did loue.<lb/>
        And then, behoulde, the pen was by <persName type="mythological">MERCVRIVS</persName> sente,<lb/>
        Wherewith, hee also gaue to him, the gifte for to inuente.<lb/>
        That, when hee first began, his vayne in verse to showe,<lb/>
        More sweete then honie, was the stile, that from his penne did flowe.<lb/>
        Wherewith, in youthe hee vs'd to bannishe idle fittes;<lb/>
        That nowe, his workes of endlesse fame, delighte the worthie wittes.<lb/>
        <pb n="embstma_1667_fac197"/>
        No haulting verse hee writes, but matcheth former times,<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_21203"/>No *<rs>Cherillus</rs>, he can abide, nor Poëttes patched rimes.<lb/>
        What volumes hath hee writte, that rest among his frendes,<lb/>
        Which needes no other praise at all, eche worke it selfe comendes.<lb/>
        So, that hee famous liues, at home, and farre, and neare;<lb/>
        For those that liue in other landes, of <persName>SIDNEYS</persName> giftes doe heare.<lb/>
        And suche as <rs>Muses</rs> serue, in darknes meere doe dwell;<lb/>
        If that they haue not seene his workes, they doe so farre excell.<lb/>
        Wherefore, for to extoll his name in what I might,<lb/>
        This <rs>Embleme</rs> lo, I did present, vnto this woorthie Knight.<lb/>
        Who, did the same refuse, as not his proper due:<lb/>
        And at the first, his sentence was, it did belong to you.<lb/>
        Wherefore, lo, fame with trompe, that mountes vnto the skye:<lb/>
        And, farre aboue the highest spire, from pole, to pole doth flye.<lb/>
        Heere houereth at your will, with pen adorn'd with baies:<lb/>
        Which for you bothe, shee hath prepar'd, vnto your endlesse praise.<lb/>
        The laurell leafe for you, for him, the goulden pen;<lb/>
        The honours that the <rs>Muses</rs> giue, vnto the rarest men.<lb/>
        Wherefore, proceede I praye, vnto your lasting fame;<lb/>
        For writinges last when wee bee gonne, and doe preserue our name.<lb/>
        And whilst wee tarrye heere, no treasure can procure,<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_21204"/>The palme that waites vpon the pen, which euer doth indure.<lb/>
        Two thousand yeares, and more, <persName>HOMERVS</persName> wrat his booke;<lb/>
        And yet, the same doth still remayne, and keepes his former looke.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_21205"/>Wheare <rs>Aegypte</rs> spires bee gonne, and <rs>ROME</rs> doth ruine feele,<lb/>
        Yet, both begonne since he was borne, thus time doth turne the wheele.<lb/>
        Yea, though some Monarche greate some worke should take in hand,<lb/>
        Of marble, or of Adamant, that manie worldes shoulde stande,<lb/>
        Yet, should one only man, with labour of the braine,<lb/>
        Bequeathe the world a monument, that longer shoulde remaine,<lb/>
        And when that marble waules, with force of time should waste;<lb/>
        It should indure from age, to age, and yet no age should taste.<lb/>
        Oh happie you therefore, who spend your blessed daies<lb/>
        In seruing <rs>GOD</rs>, your Prince, your lande, vnto your endlesse praise.<lb/>
        And daily doe proceede, with trauaile of the minde,<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_21206"/>To make you famous heere, and eeke, to leaue a fame behinde.<lb/>
        Which is the cheefest thinge, the greatest Prince can haue,<lb/>
        For, fame doth triumphe ouer deathe, when corpes are clos'd in graue.<lb/>
        Euen so, your worthie workes, when you in peace shall sleepe,<lb/>
        Shall make reporte of your desertes, and <persName>DIERS</persName> name shall keepe,<lb/>
        Whome, I doe reuerence still, as one of <persName type="mythological">PALLAS</persName> peares:<lb/>
        And praye the <rs>Lorde</rs>, with ioyfull dayes for to prolonge your yeares.<lb/>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_21201" lang="la"><name type="author">The Erle of Surrey</name>,<lb/>
         that wrat the booke<lb/>
         of <rs>Songes and So-<lb/>
          nettes</rs>.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_21202" lang="la"><name type="author">Sir Philip Sidney</name><lb/>
         Knighte.</gloss>
        <pb n="embstma_1667_fac197"/>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_21203" lang="la">*<name type="author">Horat.</name> lib. 2.<lb/>
         Epist. 1. ad Au-<lb/>
         gustum.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_21204" lang="la"><name type="author">Homerus</name> vixit, post<lb/>
         Romam conditam,<lb/>
         sed natus ante, <name type="author">Aul.<lb/>
          Gell.</name> lib. 17. cap. 21.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_21205" lang="la"> <lb/>
         Sed <name type="author">Plinius secundus</name>,<lb/>
         qui ante <name type="author">Gellium</name>,<lb/>
         tempore Vespasiani<lb/>
         Imperatoris vixit:<lb/>
         De <name type="author">Homeri</name> aetate,<lb/>
         lib. 7. ca. 16. Natur.<lb/>
         Histor. sic scribit:<lb/>
         Iam verò antè annos<lb/>
         propè mille, vates ille<lb/>
         <name type="author">Homerus</name> non cessauit,<lb/>
         &amp;c. Et <name type="author">Cornelius<lb/>
          Nepos</name> primò Chro-<lb/>
         nicorum antè Ro-<lb/>
         mam, <name type="author">Homerum</name><lb/>
         vixisse scribit.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_21206" lang="la">  <lb/>
         De Pyramidum ae-<lb/>
         tate, incertum, <name type="author">Plin.</name><lb/>
         Natural. hist. lib. 36.<lb/>
         cap. 12. tamen quas-<lb/>
         dam post <name type="author"> Homerum</name><lb/>
         conditas, probabile.<lb/>
         De his, <name type="author">Herodotus</name>.</gloss>
       </p>
      
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SEQ 212
PARENT embstma_1667
INTERP_HEN Dichterruhm
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
NEXT embstma_1667_emblem213
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
CAPTION_EN Fama flying over a landscape with obelisks, a pen hanging on her shoulder-belt
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MOTTO_LA Pennae gloria perennis
DEDICATION_EN To Edwarde Dier Esquier
IC 25I7
; 26A
; 31A2212
; 31A2512
; 31A2512(+933)
; 31A2621
; 31A2762
; 31B62111
; 31D15(+89)
; 41D2657
; 41D92
; 42E3722
; 48C7352
; 48C7525
; 48C91
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; 49L51
; 59B32(+1111)
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; 61B2(DYER, Edward)3
; 86(PENNAE GLORIA PERENNIS)
INTERP_DAL The glory everlasting of the pen
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ID embstma_1667_emblem212
MOTTO_LA_NORM Pennae gloria perennis
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