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A HYMNE TO APOLLO.
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Or Peparethus, bordring on the sea.
Ægas; or Athos, that doth Thrace diuide
And Macedon. Or Pelion, with the pride
Of his high forehead. Or the Samian Ile;
That likewise lies neare Thrace; or Scyrus soile;
Ida's steepe tops. Or all that Phocis fill:
Or Autocanes, with the heauen-high hill:
Or populous Imber: Lemnos without Ports;
Or Lesbos, fit for the diuine resorts;
And sacred soile of blest Æolion.
Or Chius that exceeds comparison
For fruitfulnes: with all the Iles that lie
Embrac't with seas. Mimas, with rocks so hie.
Or Loftie-crownd Corycius; or the bright
Charos: or Æsagæus dazeling height:
Or waterie Samos, Mycale, that beares
Her browes euen with the circles of the spheares.
Miletus; Cous; That the Citie is
Of voice-diuided-choice humanities.
High Cnidus; Carpathus, still strooke with winde.
Naxus, and Paros; and the rockie-min'd
Rugged Rhenæa. Yet through all these parts,
Latona, great-growne, with the King of darts,
Trauailde; and tried, If any would become
To her deare birth, an hospitable home.
All which, extremely trembled (shooke with feare)
Nor durst endure, so high a birth to beare,
In their free States: though, for it, they became
Ægas; or Athos, that doth Thrace diuide
And Macedon. Or Pelion, with the pride
Of his high forehead. Or the Samian Ile;
That likewise lies neare Thrace; or Scyrus soile;
Ida's steepe tops. Or all that Phocis fill:
Or Autocanes, with the heauen-high hill:
Or populous Imber: Lemnos without Ports;
Or Lesbos, fit for the diuine resorts;
And sacred soile of blest Æolion.
Or Chius that exceeds comparison
For fruitfulnes: with all the Iles that lie
Embrac't with seas. Mimas, with rocks so hie.
Or Loftie-crownd Corycius; or the bright
Charos: or Æsagæus dazeling height:
Or waterie Samos, Mycale, that beares
Her browes euen with the circles of the spheares.
Miletus; Cous; That the Citie is
Of voice-diuided-choice humanities.
High Cnidus; Carpathus, still strooke with winde.
Naxus, and Paros; and the rockie-min'd
Rugged Rhenæa. Yet through all these parts,
Latona, great-growne, with the King of darts,
Trauailde; and tried, If any would become
To her deare birth, an hospitable home.
All which, extremely trembled (shooke with feare)
Nor durst endure, so high a birth to beare,
In their free States: though, for it, they became
Neuer
