<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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