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His gracious mother, glorying to beare
So great an Archer, and a sonne so cleare.
 All haile (O blest Latona!) to bring forth
An issue of such All-out-shining worth,
Royall Apollo, and the Queene that loues
The hurles of darts. She in the Ortygian groues,
And he, in cliffie Delos; leaning on
The loftie Oros; and being built vpon
By Cynthus Prominent: that his head reares
Close to the Palme, that Inops fluent cheares.
 How shall I praise thee? farre being worthiest praise?
(O Phœbus) to whose worth, the law of layes
In all kindes is ascrib'de? If feeding flocks
By Continent, or Ile; all eminen'st rocks
Did sing for ioy: Hill-tops, and floods in song
Did breake their billows, as they flow'd along
To serue the sea. The shores, the seas, and all
Did sing as soone, as from the lap did fall
Of blest Latona, thee the ioy of Man.
Her Child-bed made, the mountaine Cynthian
In rockie Delos, the sea-circled Ile:
On whose all sides, the black seas brake their Pile,
And ouer-flowd for ioy, so franck a Gale
The singing winds did on their waues exhale.
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ Here borne; all mortalls liue in thy commands.
Who euer Crete holds; Athens; or the strands
Of th'Ile Ægina; or the famous land
For ships (Eubœa:) or Eresia;

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