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A HYMNE TO APOLLO.
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Or being in loue, when, sad, thou wentst to wowe
The Virgin Aza: and didst ouerthrowe
The euen-with-Gods, Elations Mightie seed?
That had of goodly horse, so braue a breed?
And Phorbas; sonne of soueraigne Triopus;
Valiant Leucippus, and Ereutheus;
And Triopus, himselfe, with equall fall?
Thou but on foot; and they on horsebacke all?
Or shall I sing thee, as thou first didst grace
Earth with thy foot; to finde thee forth a place
Fit to pronounce thy Oracles to Men?
First from Olympus, thou alightedst then,
Into Pieria; Passing all the land
Of fruitles Lesbos, chok't with drifts of sand.
The Magnets likewise, and the Perrhabes:
And to Iolcus variedst thy accesse?
Cenæus Topps ascending; that their Base
Make bright Eubœa; being of ships the Grace:
And fixt thy faire stand, in Lelantus field;
That did not yet, thy mindes contentment yeeld,
To raise a Phaneon; and a sacred Groue.
Passing Eurypus then; thou mad'st remoue
Up to earths euer-greene, and holyest Hill.
Yet swiftly, thence too, thou transcendedst still
To Mycalessus, and did'st touch vpon
Teucmessus, apt to make greene couches on,
And flowrie field-bedds. Then thy Progresse found
Thebes out; whose soile, with onely woods was crown'd.
The Virgin Aza: and didst ouerthrowe
The euen-with-Gods, Elations Mightie seed?
That had of goodly horse, so braue a breed?
And Phorbas; sonne of soueraigne Triopus;
Valiant Leucippus, and Ereutheus;
And Triopus, himselfe, with equall fall?
Thou but on foot; and they on horsebacke all?
Or shall I sing thee, as thou first didst grace
Earth with thy foot; to finde thee forth a place
Fit to pronounce thy Oracles to Men?
First from Olympus, thou alightedst then,
Into Pieria; Passing all the land
Of fruitles Lesbos, chok't with drifts of sand.
The Magnets likewise, and the Perrhabes:
And to Iolcus variedst thy accesse?
Cenæus Topps ascending; that their Base
Make bright Eubœa; being of ships the Grace:
And fixt thy faire stand, in Lelantus field;
That did not yet, thy mindes contentment yeeld,
To raise a Phaneon; and a sacred Groue.
Passing Eurypus then; thou mad'st remoue
Up to earths euer-greene, and holyest Hill.
Yet swiftly, thence too, thou transcendedst still
To Mycalessus, and did'st touch vpon
Teucmessus, apt to make greene couches on,
And flowrie field-bedds. Then thy Progresse found
Thebes out; whose soile, with onely woods was crown'd.
