3
Then happie Monarch sprung of Ferguse race
That talkes with wise Minerve when pleaseth the 10
And when thou list sume Princelie sporte to see
Thy chaste Diana rides with the in chase
Then when to bed thou gladlie[1] does repaire
Clasps in thine armes thy Cytherea faire.
[V]
TWO SONNETS TO HER MTIE TO SHOW THE DIFFERENCE OF STILES [2]
Althogh[3] Madame I ought not to refuse
What yee request, or please[4] to desire
Yet may I justly make my own excuse
In that which last it pleas'd you to require
Long since forsooth my Muse beganne to tire 5
Through daylie fascherie of my own affaires
Which quench'd in me that heavenly furious fire
In place whereof came sad & thorny cares
Which restlesly no time nor season spares
To spoile me of my former pleasurs quite 10
Who wont before to use farre other wares
As exercis'd some worthy work to write
How ar Castalias floods dried up in me
Like suddain shoures this time of yeere ye see
[VI]
But what Madame & shall I then denie
Your juste demaunde and disobey the same?
No yee even yee shall carrie to the skie
My barren verse and shall my Muse inflame
Was it not only your inchaunting fame 5
Who on her wings alofte did carrie mee
Frome native soil to follow on your name
