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Englands Helicon Casta placent superis, pura cum veste venite, et manibus puris sumite fontis aquam.

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Englands Helicon Casta placent superis, pura cum veste venite, et manibus puris sumite fontis aquam.
Publication
At London :: Printed by I. R[oberts] for Iohn Flasket, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Beare,
1600.
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English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Early works to 1800.
Pastoral poetry, English -- Early works to 1800.
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"Englands Helicon Casta placent superis, pura cum veste venite, et manibus puris sumite fontis aquam." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16273.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

Pages

¶Montanus praise of his faire Phaebe.

PHaebe sate, Sweete she sate, sweete sate Phaebe when I saw her, White her brow Coy her eye, brow and eye, how much you please me? Words I spent, Sighs I sent, sighs and words could neuer draw her, Oh my Loue, Thou art lost, since no sight could euer ease thee.
Phaebe sate By a Fount, sitting by a Fount I spide her, Sweete her touch, Rare her voyce, touch and voyce, what may distaine you?

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As she sung, I did sigh, And by sighs whilst that I tride her, Oh mine eyes You did loose, her first sight whose want did paine you. Phoebes flocks White as wooll, yet were Phoebes lookes more whiter, Phoebes eyes Doue-like mild, Doue-like eyes both mild and cruell, Montane sweares In your Lamps, he will die for to delight her, Phoebe yeeld Or I die, shall true harts be fancies fuell?

Thom. Lodge.

FINIS.
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