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Wrong'd yet not daring to expresse my paine	A
To you great Lord the causer of my care	B
In clowdie teares my case I thus complaine	A
Vnto yourselfe that onely priuie are	C
But if that any Oedipus vnware	C
Shall chaunce through power of some diuining spright	D
To reade the secrete of this riddle rare	C
And know the purporte of my euill plight	D
Let him rest pleased with his owne insight	D
Ne further seeke to glose vpon the text	D
For griefe enough it is to grieued wight	D
To feele his fault and not be further vext	D
But what so by my selfe may not be showen	A
May by this Gnatts complaint be easily knowen	A
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We now haue playde Augustus wantonly	E
Tuning our song vnto a tender Muse	F
And like a cobweb weauing slenderly	E
Haue onely playde let thus much then excuse	G
This Gnats small Poeme that th' whole history	E
Is but a jest though envie it abuse	G
But who such sports and sweet delights doth blame	H
Shall lighter seeme than this Gnats idle name	H
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Hereafter when as season more secure	C
Shall bring forth fruit this Muse shall speak to thee	E
In bigger notes that may thy sense allure	C
And for thy worth frame some fit Poesie	G
The golden offspring of Latona pure	C
And ornament of great Ioues progenie	A
Phoebus shall be the author of my song	I
Playing on iuorie harp with siluer strong	I
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He shall inspire my verse with gentle mood	D
Of Poets Prince whether he woon beside	D
Faire Xanthus sprincled with Chim ras blood	D
Or in the woods of Astery abide	D
Or whereas mount Parnasse the Muses brood	D
Doth his broad forhead like two hornes diuide	D
And the sweete waues of sounding Castaly	E
With liquid foote doth slide downe easily	E
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Wherefore ye Sisters which the glorie bee	E
Of the Pierian streames fayre Naiades	G
Go too and dauncing all in companie	A
Adorne that God and thou holie Pales	G
To whome the honest care of husbandrie	C
Returneth by continuall successe	G
Haue care for to pursue his footing light	D
Throgh the wide woods groues with green leaues dight	D
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Professing thee I lifted am aloft	D
Betwixt the forrest wide and starrie sky	J
And thou most dread Octauius which oft	D
To learned wits giuest courage worthily	E
O come thou sacred childe come sliding soft	D
And fauour my beginnings graciously	E
For not these leaues do sing that dreadfull stound	D
When Giants bloud did staine Phlegr an ground	D
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Nor how th' halfe horsy people Centaures hight	D
Fought with the bloudie Lapithaes at bord	D
Nor how the East with tyranous despight	D
Burnt th Attick towres and people slew with sword	D
Was digged downe nor yron bands abord	D
The Pontick sea by their huge Nauy cast	D
My volume shall renowne so long since past	D
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Nor Hellespont trampled with horses feete	D
When flocking Persians did the Greeks affray	C
But my soft Muse as for her power more meete	D
Delights with Phoebus friendly leaue to play	E
An easie running verse with tender feete	D
And thou dread sacred child to thee alway	K
Let euerlasting lightsome glory striue	C
Through the worlds endles ages to suruiue	C
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And let an happie roome remaine for thee	E
Mongst heauenly ranks where blessed soules do rest	D
And let long lasting life with ioyous glee	E
As thy due meede that thou deseruest best	D
Hereafter many yeares remembred be	E
Amongst good men of whom thou oft are blest	D
Liue thou for euer in all happinesse	G
But let us turne to our first businesse	G
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The fiery sun was mounted now on hight	D
Vp to the heauenly towers and shot each where	C
Out of his golden Charet glistering light	D
And fayre Aurora with her rosie heare	C
The hatefull darknes now had put to flight	D
When as the shepheard seeing day appeare	C
His little Goats gan driue out of their stalls	G
To feede abroad where pasture best befalls	G
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To an high mountaines top he with them went	D
Where thickest grasse did cloath the open hills	G
They now amongst the woods and thickets ment	D
Now in the valleies wandring at their wills	G
Spread themselues farre abroad through each descent	D
Some on the soft greene grasse feeding their fills	G
Some clambring through the hollow cliffes on hy	-
Nibble the bushie shrubs which growe thereby	-
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Others the vtmost boughs of trees doe crop	L
And brouze the woodbine twigges that freshly bud	D
This with full bit doth catch the vtmost top	L
Of some soft Willow or new growen stud	D
This with sharpe teeth the brambles leaues doth lop	L
And chaw the tender prickles in her Cud	D
The whiles another high doth ouerlooke	J
Her owne like image in christall brooke	J
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O the great happines which shepheards haue	M
Who so loathes not too much the poor estate	D
With minde that ill vse doth before depraue	C
Ne measures all things by the costly rate	D
Of riotise and semblants outward braue	C
No such sad cares as wont to macerate	D
And rend the greedie mindes of couetous men	A
Do euer creepe into the shepheards den	A
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Ne cares he if the fleece which him arayes	G
Be not twice steeped in Assyrian dye	-
Ne glistering of golde which vnderlayes	G
The summer beames doe blinde his gazing eye	-
Ne pictures beautie nor the glauncing rayes	G
Of precious stones whence no good commeth by	-
Of B tus or of Alcons vanity	D
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Ne ought the whelky pearles esteemeth hee	D
Which are from Indian seas brought far away	K
But with pure brest from carefull sorrow free	D
On the soft grasse his limbs doth oft display	K
In sweete spring time when flowres varietie	D
With sundrie colours paints the sprincled lay	K
There lyin all at ease from guile or spight	D
With pype of fennie reedes doth him delight	D
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There he Lord of himselfe with palme bedight	D
His looser locks doth wrap in wreath of vine	A
There his milk dropping Goats be his delight	D
And fruitful Pales and the forrest greene	A
And darkesome caues in pleasaunt vallies pight	D
Whereas continuall shade is to be seene	A
And where fresh sprining wells as christall neate	D
Do alwayes flow to quench his thirstie heate	D
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O who can lead them to a more happie life	N
Than he that with cleane minde and heart sincere	C
No greedy riches knowes nor bloudie strife	N
No deadly fight of warlick fleete doth feare	C
Ne runs in perill of foes cruell knife	N
That in the sacred temples he may reare	C
A trophee of his glittering spoyels and treasure	C
Or may abound in riches aboue measure	C
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Of him his God is worshipt with his sythe	E
And not with skill of craftsman polished	D
He ioyes in groues and makes himselfe full blythe	E
With sundrie flowers in wilde fieldes gathered	D
Ne frankincens he from Panch a buyth	E
Sweete quiet harbours in his harmeles head	D
And perfect pleasure builds her iouyous bowre	C
Free from sad cares that rich mens hearts deuowre	C
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This all his care this all his whole indeuour	C
To this his minde and senses he doth bend	D
How he may flow in quiets matchles treasour	C
Content with any food that God doth send	D
And how his limbs resolu'd through idle leisour	C
Vnto sweete sleepe he may securely lend	D
In some coole shadow from the scorching heate	D
The whiles his flock their chawed cuds do eate	D
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O flocks O Faunes and O ye pleasaunt springs	G
Of Tempe where the countrey Nymphs are rife	N
Through whose not costly care each shepheard sings	G
As merrie notes vpon his rusticke Fife	N
As that Ascr an bard whose fame now rings	G
Through the wide world and leads as ioyfull life	N
Free from all troubles and from worldly toyle	K
In which fond men doe all their dayes turmoyle	K
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In such delights whilst thus his carelesse time	O
This shepheard driues vpleaning on his batt	D
And on shrill reedes chaunting his rustick rime	O
Hyperion throwing foorth his beames full hott	D
Into the highest top of heauen gan clime	O
And the world parting by an equall lott	D
Did shed his whirling flames on either side	D
As the great Ocean doth himselfe diuide	D
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Then gan the shepheard gather into one	A
His stragling Goates and draue them to a foord	D
Whose c rule streame rombling in Pible stone	A
Crept vnder mosse as greene as any goord	D
Now had the Sun halfe heauen ouergone	A
When he heard back from that water foord	D
Draue from the force of Phoebus boyling ray	C
Into thick shadowes there themselues to lay	C
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Soone as he them plac'd in thy sacred w	-