A HYMNE TO APOLLO.
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A Temple giuing consecrations,
In woods adioning. And in this Phane all
On him, by surname of Delphusius call.
Because Delphusa's sacred flood and fame
His wrath affected so, and hid in shame.
And then thought Phœbus, what descent of Men
To be his Ministers, he should retein
To doe in stonie Pythos sacrifice.
To which, his minde contending; his quicke eies
He cast vpon the blew Sea; and beheld
A ship, on whose Masts, sailes that wing'd it sweld:
In which were men transferr'd, many and good
That in Minoian Gnossus, eate their food,
And were Cretensians; who now are those
That all the sacrifising dues dispose;
And all the lawes, deliuer to a word
Of Daies great King, that weares the golden sword.
And Oracles (out of his Delphian Tree
That shrowds her faire armes in the Cauitie
Beneath Parnassus Mount) pronounce to Men.
These, now his Priests, that liu'd as Merchants then,
In trafficks, and Pecuniarie Rates,
For sandie Pylos and the Pylean States,
Were under saile. But now encounterd them
Phœbus Apollo, who into the streame
Cast himselfe headlong: and the strange disguise
Tooke of a Dolphine, of a goodly life:
Lake which; He leapt into their ship, and lay
In woods adioning. And in this Phane all
On him, by surname of Delphusius call.
Because Delphusa's sacred flood and fame
His wrath affected so, and hid in shame.
And then thought Phœbus, what descent of Men
To be his Ministers, he should retein
To doe in stonie Pythos sacrifice.
To which, his minde contending; his quicke eies
He cast vpon the blew Sea; and beheld
A ship, on whose Masts, sailes that wing'd it sweld:
In which were men transferr'd, many and good
That in Minoian Gnossus, eate their food,
And were Cretensians; who now are those
That all the sacrifising dues dispose;
And all the lawes, deliuer to a word
Of Daies great King, that weares the golden sword.
And Oracles (out of his Delphian Tree
That shrowds her faire armes in the Cauitie
Beneath Parnassus Mount) pronounce to Men.
These, now his Priests, that liu'd as Merchants then,
In trafficks, and Pecuniarie Rates,
For sandie Pylos and the Pylean States,
Were under saile. But now encounterd them
Phœbus Apollo, who into the streame
Cast himselfe headlong: and the strange disguise
Tooke of a Dolphine, of a goodly life:
Lake which; He leapt into their ship, and lay
