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hoebus was judge betweene Jove, Mars, and Love,Of those three gods, whose armes the fairest were.Jove's golden shield did eagle sables beare,Whose talents held young Ganimed above :But in vert field Mars bare a golden speare.Which through a bleeding heart his point did shove :Each had his creast, Mars caried Venus' glove,Jove on his heline the thunderbolt did reare.Cupidjhcn smiles, for on his crest there liesStella's faire haire, her face he makes his shield,Where roses gueuls are borne in silver field.Phoebus drew wide the curtaines of the skies,To blaze these last, and sware devoutly then," jThe first, thus matcht, were scantly gentlemen. J ki ASTROPHEL AND STELLA, Vertue, alas, now let me take some rest ; I Th9^1 Set\'it a b^<^^ between^ my ]yil] aud Wit.; ' ILvaine LQ^fiJuaKCJay simple §oule opprest,Leave what thou likest not, deale not thou with it.jThy scepter use in some olde Catoe's brest,Churches or schooles are for thy seate more fit :I do confesse — pardon a fault confest — a- , fi , ^ 1^My mp"^^ ♦n^ t'^"^^^' '^^ ^"^ ^^y hacd.bit. *>But if that needs thou wilt usurping beThe little reason that is left in me,And still th' effect of thy perswasions prove,I sweare, my heart such one shall shew to thee,That shrines in flesh frO \r\\^-o^-^A\\t^^That, Vertue, thou thy selfe shalt be in love.
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