A Book of old English love songs . Dried up ? lies Thespia waste ?Doth Clarius* harp want strings,That not a nymph now sings ?Or droop they as disgraced,To see their seats and bowers by chattering piesdefaced ? If hence thy silence be, As tis too just a cause,Let this thought quicken thee:[65] 2ln ®&e to tyimself Minds that are great and freeShould not on fortune pause;Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause. What though the greedy fry-Be taken with false baits Of worded balladry, And think it poesy ? That die with their conceits,And only piteous scorn upon their folly waits. Then t
A Book of old English love songs . Dried up ? lies Thespia waste ?Doth Clarius* harp want strings,That not a nymph now sings ?Or droop they as disgraced,To see their seats and bowers by chattering piesdefaced ? If hence thy silence be, As tis too just a cause,Let this thought quicken thee:[65] 2ln ®&e to tyimself Minds that are great and freeShould not on fortune pause;Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause. What though the greedy fry-Be taken with false baits Of worded balladry, And think it poesy ? That die with their conceits,And only piteous scorn upon their folly waits. Then take in hand thy lyre,Strike in thy proper strain,With Japhets line aspireSols chariot for new fire,To give the world again:Who aided him, will thee, the issue of Joves brain. And since our dainty age, Cannot endure reproof,Make not thyself a page,To that strumpet the stage, But sing high and aloof,Safe from the wolfs black jaw, and the dull asss hoof. _ Ben Jonson. [66] C^e Untttation IVE with me still, and all the meas- ures. Played to by the spheres Ill teachthee; Lets but thus dally, all the pleasuresThe moon beholds her man shall reachthee. Dwell in mine arms, aloft well hover, And see fields of armies fighting:Oh, part not from me! Ill discoverThere all but books of fancys writing. Be but my darling, Age to free theeFrom her curse shall fall a-dying;Call me thy empress, Time to see theeShall forget his art of flying. — Thomas Dekker.[«7] 0pora>tD
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