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Impelling me) I made impetuous speede;
And went with them to Cuma; with Intent
T'Eternise all the sacred Continent
And State of Cuma. They (in proud Ascent
From off their Bench) refus'd with usage fierce
The sacred voice which I auerre, is Verse.
Their follies yet, and madnesse borne by Me
Shall by some Powre, be thought on futurely;
To wreake of him whoeuer, whose tongue sought
With false empaire, my fall. What fate, God brought
Upon my Birth, Iile beare with any paine;
But vndeseru'd Defame; unfelt, sustaine.
Nor feeles my Person (deare to me, though Pore)
Any great lust, to linger, any more
In Cuma's holy Highwaies: but my Minde
(No thought empaird, for cares of any kinde
Borne in my body) rather vowes to trie
The Influence of any other skie,
And spirits of People; bredd in any Land,
Of ne're so slender, and obscure Command.
And went with them to Cuma; with Intent
T'Eternise all the sacred Continent
And State of Cuma. They (in proud Ascent
From off their Bench) refus'd with usage fierce
The sacred voice which I auerre, is Verse.
Their follies yet, and madnesse borne by Me
Shall by some Powre, be thought on futurely;
To wreake of him whoeuer, whose tongue sought
With false empaire, my fall. What fate, God brought
Upon my Birth, Iile beare with any paine;
But vndeseru'd Defame; unfelt, sustaine.
Nor feeles my Person (deare to me, though Pore)
Any great lust, to linger, any more
In Cuma's holy Highwaies: but my Minde
(No thought empaird, for cares of any kinde
Borne in my body) rather vowes to trie
The Influence of any other skie,
And spirits of People; bredd in any Land,
Of ne're so slender, and obscure Command.
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