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.

Gallicinium.

By this the Northerne Wagoner had set His seuen-fold teeme behind the stedfast starre, That was in Ocean waues, yet neuer wet, But firme is fixt, and sendeth light from farre, To all that in the wide deepe wandring are, And cheereful chauntte cleere with his notes shrill, Had warned once that Phebus fierie carre, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 haste was climing vp to Esterne hill, Full enuious that the night so long his roome did f••ill Ed. Spencer.

What time the natiue Bel-man of the night, The bird that warned Peter of his fall, First rings his siluer bel to each sleeping wight, That should their mindes vp to deuotion call. Idem.

The cheerefull cocke, the sad nights trumpeter, Wayting vpon the rising of the sunne, Doth sing to see how Cynthia shrinks her horne, Where Clitia takes her progresse to the East, VVhere wringing west with drops of siluer dew, Her wonted teares of loue she doth renew, The wandering swallow with her broken song, The countrie wench vnto her worke awakes, Whilst Cytherea sighing, walks to seeke, Her murdered loue transformed to a rose, Whom though she see, to croppe shee kindly feares But kissing sighes, and dewes him with her teares. Th. Kyd.

Now ere the purple dawning yet did spring, The ioyfull Larke began to stretch her wing, And now the cocke the mornings trumpeter, Plaid hunts vp, for the day-starre to appeare, Downe slideth Phebe from her cristall chayre, S'daigning to lend her light vnto the ayre. M. Drayton.