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A HYMNE TO VENVS.
And whose so chiefely-glorified Flames
Crosse-counsailde Saturne got; and Rhæa bore;
And Ioues pure counsailes, (being Conqueror)
His wife made of his sister. I, and more;
Cast such an amorous fire into her minde
As made her (like him) with the Mortall kinde
Meete in vnmeete bedd; vsing vtmost haste;
Lest she should know, that he liu'd so vnchaste,
Before her selfe, felt that fault in her heart;
And gaue her tongue, too iust edge of Desert
To tax his lightnes. With this End, beside,
Lest laughter-studying Venus, should deride
The Gods more then the Goddesses; and say
That shee the Gods commixt in amorous play,
With mortall Dames; begetting mortall seede
T'Immortall sires; and not make Goddesses breede
The like with mortall Fathers. But t'acquite
Both Gods and Goddesses of her despite,
Ioue tooke (euen in her selfe) on him, her powre;
And made her with a mortall Paramoure
Vse as deform'd a mixture, as the rest;
Kindling a kinde affection in her brest
To God-like-limm'd Anchises; as he kept
[1]On Idas-top-on-top-to-heauens-Pole heapt,
Amongst the manie fountaines there, his Herd;
For after his braue Person had apper'de
To her bright eye; her heart flew all on fire;
And (to amaze) she burn'd in his desire.
Crosse-counsailde Saturne got; and Rhæa bore;
And Ioues pure counsailes, (being Conqueror)
His wife made of his sister. I, and more;
Cast such an amorous fire into her minde
As made her (like him) with the Mortall kinde
Meete in vnmeete bedd; vsing vtmost haste;
Lest she should know, that he liu'd so vnchaste,
Before her selfe, felt that fault in her heart;
And gaue her tongue, too iust edge of Desert
To tax his lightnes. With this End, beside,
Lest laughter-studying Venus, should deride
The Gods more then the Goddesses; and say
That shee the Gods commixt in amorous play,
With mortall Dames; begetting mortall seede
T'Immortall sires; and not make Goddesses breede
The like with mortall Fathers. But t'acquite
Both Gods and Goddesses of her despite,
Ioue tooke (euen in her selfe) on him, her powre;
And made her with a mortall Paramoure
Vse as deform'd a mixture, as the rest;
Kindling a kinde affection in her brest
To God-like-limm'd Anchises; as he kept
[1]On Idas-top-on-top-to-heauens-Pole heapt,
Amongst the manie fountaines there, his Herd;
For after his braue Person had apper'de
To her bright eye; her heart flew all on fire;
And (to amaze) she burn'd in his desire.
- ↑ Άκροπόλος. Altissimum habens verticem, cujus summitas ipsum polum attingit.
