1. _curuaq; But sure some Power did dwell,
lyra parente_. In Him who found it out.
Thebes _fayned The Wildest of the field,
to haue beene And Ayre, with Riuers t' yeeld,
raysed by Which mou'd; that sturdy Glebes,
Musicke._ And massie Oakes could weeld,
To rayse the pyles of _Thebes_. 50
And diuersly though Strung,
So anciently We sung,
To it, that Now scarce knowne,
If first it did belong
To _Greece_, or if our Owne.
_The ancient_ The _Druydes_ imbrew'd,
British _Priests_ With Gore, on Altars rude
so called of With Sacrifices crown'd,
their abode in In hollow Woods bedew'd,
woods. Ador'd the Trembling sound. 60
Pindar _Prince of Though wee be All to seeke,
the_ Greeke Of PINDAR that Great _Greeke_,
lyricks, _of whom_ To Finger it aright,
Horace: Pindarum The Soule with power to strike,
quisquis studet, His hand retayn'd such Might.
&c. Ode 2. lib. 4.
Horace _first of Or him that _Rome_ did grace
the_ Romans _in Whose Ayres we all imbrace,
that kind_. That scarcely found his Peere,
Nor giueth PHOEBVS place,
For Strokes diuinely cleere. 70
_The_ Irish The _Irish_ I admire,
_Harpe_.
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