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A HYMNE TO VENVS.
White-swift-hou'd Horse; that Immortality
Had made firme spirrited; and had (beside)
Hermes to see his Ambassie supplied
With this vow'd Bountie (vsing all at large
That his vnaltered counsailes gaue in charge)
That he himselfe, should Immortality breath,
Expert of Age, and Woe, as well as Death.
This Ambassie exprest, he mourn'd no more;
But vp, with all his inmost minde he bore;
Ioying that he, vpon his swift-hou'd Horse,
Should be stustain'd in an eternall course.
So did the golden-thron'de Aurora, raise
Into her Lap; another that the praise
Of an Immortall fashion, had in Fame;
And of your Nation, bore the Noble Name:
(His Title Tython) who, not pleas'd with her,
As she his louely Person, did transfer;
(To satisfie him) she bad aske of Ioue,
The Gift of an Immortall for her Loue.
Ioue gaue; and bound it with his bowed Brow;
Performing to the vtmost point, his vow.
Foole that she was; that would her loue engage;
And not, as long aske, from the Bane of Age,
The sweet exemption; and Youths endlesse flowre.
Of which, as long, as both the grace and powre
His person entertainde; she lou'd the Man;
And (at the fluents of the Ocean
Nere Earths extreame bounds) dwelt with him: but when
Had made firme spirrited; and had (beside)
Hermes to see his Ambassie supplied
With this vow'd Bountie (vsing all at large
That his vnaltered counsailes gaue in charge)
That he himselfe, should Immortality breath,
Expert of Age, and Woe, as well as Death.
This Ambassie exprest, he mourn'd no more;
But vp, with all his inmost minde he bore;
Ioying that he, vpon his swift-hou'd Horse,
Should be stustain'd in an eternall course.
So did the golden-thron'de Aurora, raise
Into her Lap; another that the praise
Of an Immortall fashion, had in Fame;
And of your Nation, bore the Noble Name:
(His Title Tython) who, not pleas'd with her,
As she his louely Person, did transfer;
(To satisfie him) she bad aske of Ioue,
The Gift of an Immortall for her Loue.
Ioue gaue; and bound it with his bowed Brow;
Performing to the vtmost point, his vow.
Foole that she was; that would her loue engage;
And not, as long aske, from the Bane of Age,
The sweet exemption; and Youths endlesse flowre.
Of which, as long, as both the grace and powre
His person entertainde; she lou'd the Man;
And (at the fluents of the Ocean
Nere Earths extreame bounds) dwelt with him: but when
