A HYMNE TO HERMES.
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Stor'de with Reuennews; being in corne-fielde reapes
Of infinite Acres; then to liue enclos'd
In Caues, to all Earths sweetest ayre expos'd.
I, as much honor hold, as Phœbus does,
And if my Father please not to dispose
Possessions to me; I my selfe will see
If I can force them in, for I can be
Prince of all Theeues. And if Latona's Sonne
Make after my stealth, Indignation;
I'le haue a Scape, as well as he a Serch,
And ouertake him with a greater lurch.
For I can post to Pythos; and breake through,
His huge house, there; where harbors wealth enough;
Most precious Tripods; Caldrons; Steele, and Gold;
Garments rich wrought; and full of liberall fold:
All which will I, at pleasure owne; and thow
Shalt see all; wilt thou but thy sight bestow.
Thus chang'd great words; the Gote-byde-wearers Sonne,
And Maia, of Maiestique fashion.
And now the Ayre-begot Aurora rose
From out the Ocean-great-in-ebbs-and flows;
When, at the neuer-shorne, pure-and-faire Groue,
(Onchestus) consecrated to the loue
Of round and long-neckt Neptune; Phœbus found
A man whom heauie yeares, had prest halfe round;
And yet at worke, in plashing of a Fence
About a Vineyeard; that had residence
Hard by the high-way; whom Latona's Sonne,
Of infinite Acres; then to liue enclos'd
In Caues, to all Earths sweetest ayre expos'd.
I, as much honor hold, as Phœbus does,
And if my Father please not to dispose
Possessions to me; I my selfe will see
If I can force them in, for I can be
Prince of all Theeues. And if Latona's Sonne
Make after my stealth, Indignation;
I'le haue a Scape, as well as he a Serch,
And ouertake him with a greater lurch.
For I can post to Pythos; and breake through,
His huge house, there; where harbors wealth enough;
Most precious Tripods; Caldrons; Steele, and Gold;
Garments rich wrought; and full of liberall fold:
All which will I, at pleasure owne; and thow
Shalt see all; wilt thou but thy sight bestow.
Thus chang'd great words; the Gote-byde-wearers Sonne,
And Maia, of Maiestique fashion.
And now the Ayre-begot Aurora rose
From out the Ocean-great-in-ebbs-and flows;
When, at the neuer-shorne, pure-and-faire Groue,
(Onchestus) consecrated to the loue
Of round and long-neckt Neptune; Phœbus found
A man whom heauie yeares, had prest halfe round;
And yet at worke, in plashing of a Fence
About a Vineyeard; that had residence
Hard by the high-way; whom Latona's Sonne,
