A HYMNE TO APOLLO.
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And fayre-burnt-offrings, that true Deities binde.
With this; His minde she altered; though she spake
Not for his good; but her owne glories sake.
From hence (O Phœbus) first thou mad'st retreat;
And of the Phlegians, reacht the walled seat;
Inhabited with contumelious Men:
Whoe, sleighting Ioue, tooke vp their dwellings then
Within a large Caue, neare Cephyssus Lake.
Hence, swiftly mouing; thou all speed didst make
Up to the stops intended; and the ground
Of Crissa, vnder the-with-snowe-still croun'd
(Parnassus) reacht; whose face affects the rest:
Aboue which, hangs, a rock that still seemes prest
To fall upon it; through whose brest doth runn
A rockie Caue, neare which, the King the Sunn
Cast to contriue a Temple to his minde;
And said; Now heere, stands my conceipt inclin'd
To build a famous Phane, where still shall be
An Oracle to Men; that still to me
Shall offer absolute Hecatombs; as well
Those that in rich Peloponessus dwell;
As those of Europe; and the Iles that lie
Walld with the sea; That all their paines applie
T'employ my counsailes. To all which will I
True secrets tell, by way of Prophesie,
In my rich Temple; that shall euer be
An Oracle, to all Posteritie.
This said; the Phanes forme he did strait present,
With this; His minde she altered; though she spake
Not for his good; but her owne glories sake.
From hence (O Phœbus) first thou mad'st retreat;
And of the Phlegians, reacht the walled seat;
Inhabited with contumelious Men:
Whoe, sleighting Ioue, tooke vp their dwellings then
Within a large Caue, neare Cephyssus Lake.
Hence, swiftly mouing; thou all speed didst make
Up to the stops intended; and the ground
Of Crissa, vnder the-with-snowe-still croun'd
(Parnassus) reacht; whose face affects the rest:
Aboue which, hangs, a rock that still seemes prest
To fall upon it; through whose brest doth runn
A rockie Caue, neare which, the King the Sunn
Cast to contriue a Temple to his minde;
And said; Now heere, stands my conceipt inclin'd
To build a famous Phane, where still shall be
An Oracle to Men; that still to me
Shall offer absolute Hecatombs; as well
Those that in rich Peloponessus dwell;
As those of Europe; and the Iles that lie
Walld with the sea; That all their paines applie
T'employ my counsailes. To all which will I
True secrets tell, by way of Prophesie,
In my rich Temple; that shall euer be
An Oracle, to all Posteritie.
This said; the Phanes forme he did strait present,
