Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.

Bountie.

O sacred Bountie, mother of content, Proppe of renowne, nourisher of Arts: The crowne of hope, the roote of good euent, The trumpe of fame, the ioy of noble hearts, Grace of the heauens, diuinitie in nature, Whose excellence doth so adorne the creature, M. Drayton.

— On the other part was to be viewde His vertues, each one by it selfe distinct, Prudence and temperance,, and Fortitude, And Iustice, and a fift vnto these linckt So nie, that who with it is not indued? The rest may seeme blotted, or quite extinct, Bountie, employed in giuing and in spending, A speciall grace to all the other lending. S. I. Harr. Transl.

Augustus Caesar was not such a Saint, As Ʋirgill maketh him by his description, His loue of learning scuseth that complaint, That men might iustly make of his proscription•• Neither the shame that Neroes name doth taint, Confirm'd now by a thousand yeares prescription, Be e'ne as it is, if he had had the wit, To haue bene franke to such as Poems writ, Idem.

— This reason is the chiefe, That wits decay because they want their hire, For where no succour is, nor no reliefe, The very beasts will from such place retire. Idem.

—He is mad and worse, That plaies the nigard with a Princes purse. M. Drayton.