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Then was there made a proclamasion,
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In Plutoys name commaundyd silence
Vppon the peyne of strayte correccion,
That Diana and Neptunus myght haue audience
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To declare her greefe of the gret offence
To theym done by Eolus, wheron they compleynyd.
And to begyn Diana was constreynyd.
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Whyche thus began as ye shall here
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Seying in thys wyse, "O thow lord Pluto,
With thy Iuge Mynos, syttyng with the in fere,
Execute your fury vppon Eolus so
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Accordyng to the offence that he to me hath do,
That I haue no cause forther to apele,
Whiche yef I do shall nat be for your wele.
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"Remembre furst howe I a goddesse pure
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Ouer all desertys, forestes and chases,
Haue take the guydyng and vndyr my cure.
Thys traytour Eolus, hath many of my places
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Dystroyed with hys blastes and dayly me manaces.
Where any wood ys he shall make hyt pleyn
Yef he to hys lyberte may resorte ayeyn.
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"The grettest trees that any man may fynde
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In forest to shade the deere for her comfort,
He breketh hem asondre or rendeth hem roote & rynde
Out of the erthe—thys ys hys dysport,
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So that the deere shall haue no resort
Withyn short tyme to no maner shade;
Wher thorough the game ys lykly to fade.
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"Whyche to my name a reproche syngler
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Shuld be for euer whyle the world last,
And to all the goddes an hygh dyspleser
To see the game so dystroyed by hys blast;
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Wherfore a remedy puruey in hast,
And let hym be punysshyd aftyr hys offence.
Consyder the cryme and yeue your sentence."
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