Be fild with praises of divineft wits, That her eternize with their heavenlie writs! Some few befide this facred fkill efteme, 586 Which, being lightned with her beawties beme, 591 But all the reft, as borne of falvage brood, may. Eftfoones fuch ftore of teares fhee forth did powre, 595 As if fhee all to water would have gone ; Ver. 600. living] This is the emendation of the first folio. The original edition reads loving. TODD. VIRGILS GNAT. LONG SINCE DEDICATED TO THE MOST NOBLE AND EXCELLENT LORD, THE EARLE OF LEICESTER, LATE DECEASED. WRONG'D, yet not daring to expreffe my paine, To you (great Lord) the caufer of my care, In clowdie teares my cafe I thus complaine Unto your felfe, that onely privie are. But if that any Edipus unware Shall chaunce, through power of fome divining fpright, To reade the fecrete of this riddle rare, And know the But what fo by my felfe may not be showen, Ver. 1. Wrong'd, &c.] See the Life of the Poet. TopD. |