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The Crowne of All Homers Workes/To Mercurie

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4438203The Crowne of All Homers Workes — To MercurieGeorge ChapmanHomer

To Mercurie.

Hermes, I honor, (the Cyllenian Spie)King of Cyllenia, and of ArcadieWith flocks abounding: and the MessengerOf all th'Immortalls; that doth still inferreProfites of infinite valew to their store:Whom to Saturnius, bashfull Maia bore;Daughter of Atlas; and did therefore flieOf all th'Immortalls, the Societie,To that darcke Caue; where, in the dead of Night,Ioue ioind with her, in Loues diuine Delight;When Golden sleepe, shut Iuno's iealous eye,Whose arms had wrists, as white as Iuorie;From whom, and all, both Men, and Gods beside,The faire-hayrd Nymph, her scape kept vnderscride.Ioy to the Ioue-got then, and Maia's Care;Twixt Men and Gods, the generall Messenger:Giuer of good Grace; Gladnesse, and the FloodOf all that Men, or Gods, account their Good.