The essayes of a prentise, in the diuine art of poesie

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The essayes of a prentise, in the diuine art of poesie
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James I, King of England, 1566-1625.
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Imprinted at Edinbrugh [sic] :: By Thomas Vautroullier,
1584.
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SONNET. 11.

AND at your handis I earnestly do craue, O facound Mercure, with the Muses nyne, That for conducting guyde I may you haue, Aswell vnto my pen, as my Ingyne. Let Readers think, thy eloquence deuyne O Mercure, in my Poems doth appeare: And that Parnassis flowing fountaine fyne Into my works doth shyne lyke cristall cleare. O Muses, let them think that they do heare Your voyces all into my verse resound. And that your vertewis singuler and seir May wholly all in them be also found. Of all that may the perfyte Poems make, I pray you let my verses haue no lake.
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