Z E P H E R I A.
C A N Z 0 N i .
in a heavenly Charm of pleasing Passions ; Many their well-thewed rhymes do fair
attemper
Unto their Amours ! while another fashions Love to his lines, and he on Fame doth
venture ! And some again, in mercenary writ,
Belch forth Desire, making Reward their mistress ! And though it chance some LAIS patron it,
At least, they sell her praises to the press ! The Muses' Nurse, I read, is EUPHEMIE;
And who but Honour makes his lines' reward, Comes not, by my consent, within my pedigree !
'Mongst true-born sons, inherit may no bastard ! All in the humble accent of my Muse ;
Whose wing may not aspire the pitch of Fame, My griefs I here untomb ! Sweet ! them peruse !
Though low he fly, yet Honour is his game, All while my pen quests on ZEPHERIA'S name : Whom, when it sprung thy wing, did thee relieve ; Now flown to mark, thus doth Desire thee retrieve '
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