Tixall Poetry.
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Goe you, but take my Normington along,
Who'le equal! your great action with his song;
Whose pen can match your sword, and he out doe
As much of Tasso's fame as Godfry's you;
Who, whilst you choose new sceans for every fray,
Will a new plott for every canto lay.
You'le shew him Phlegra, wher the gyants fought,
And Ossa, with its pile to heaven wrought;
He'le Tempe show, wher Graces dance ther ring,
And fork'd Parnassus, wher the Muses sing:
In Eagypt youle of Pharo monsters tell,
And sigh wher fairest Cleopatra fell;
He'le weepe upon the shrine of Ptolomye,
And Phylodelphus' buried library:
Whilst you with Perseus and Darius taulke,
With Zoroaster he'le and Cadmus walke:
Youle teach where Ninus first contrived the warrs,
He where Promethius observed the starrs.
Goe then, and take him with you, syr, and when
You've seene as many, both of townes and men,
In monthes no more then were Ulisses' yeares,
Returne againe, and quitt us of our feares:
Who'le equal! your great action with his song;
Whose pen can match your sword, and he out doe
As much of Tasso's fame as Godfry's you;
Who, whilst you choose new sceans for every fray,
Will a new plott for every canto lay.
You'le shew him Phlegra, wher the gyants fought,
And Ossa, with its pile to heaven wrought;
He'le Tempe show, wher Graces dance ther ring,
And fork'd Parnassus, wher the Muses sing:
In Eagypt youle of Pharo monsters tell,
And sigh wher fairest Cleopatra fell;
He'le weepe upon the shrine of Ptolomye,
And Phylodelphus' buried library:
Whilst you with Perseus and Darius taulke,
With Zoroaster he'le and Cadmus walke:
Youle teach where Ninus first contrived the warrs,
He where Promethius observed the starrs.
Goe then, and take him with you, syr, and when
You've seene as many, both of townes and men,
In monthes no more then were Ulisses' yeares,
Returne againe, and quitt us of our feares:
