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<T Per><L 1><Y M><P A2><C X>
<D {Enter Gower.}>To sing a Song that old was sung,
From ashes, auntient {Gower} is come,
Assuming mans infirmities,
To glad your eare, and please your eyes:
And Lords and Ladyes in their liues,
Haue red it for restoratiues:
The purchase is to make men glorious,
<S {Et bonum quo Antiquius eo melius}>:
If you, borne in those latter times,
When Witts more ripe, accept my rimes;
And that to heare an old man sing,
May to your Wishes pleasure bring:
I life would wish, and that I might
Waste it for you, like Taper light.
This {Antioch}, then {Antiochus} the great,
Buylt vp this Citie, for his chiefest Seat;
The fayrest in all {Syria.}This King vnto him tooke a Peere,
Who dyed, and left a female heyre,
So bucksome, blith, and full of face,
As heauen had lent her all his grace:
With whom the Father liking tooke,
And her to Incest did prouoke:
Bad child, worse father, to intice his owne
<P A2v>
To euill, should be done by none:
But custome w . . .
