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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Albott, Robert, fl. 1600.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: For N. L[ing,] C. B[urby] and T. H[ayes],; 1600.
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Subject terms: English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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August.

That time of yeere when the inamoured sunne, Clad in the richest roabes of liuing fires, Courted the Virgin signe, great Natures Nunne, ••vhich barraines earth, of all that earth desires: ••uen in the month that from Augustus wone His sacred name, which vnto heauen aspi••es, And on the last of his tentrebled dayes W. Shakespeare.

••t was the month in which the righteous mayde, That for disdaine of sinfull worlds vpbraid, ••ed backe to heauen where she was first conceiu'd ••nto her siluer bower the sunne receiu'd, And the hote Syrian dog on him awayting After the chafed Lyons cruell bayting, ••orrupted had the ayre with noysome breath, And powrd on earth, plague, pestilence & dearth. Rob. Greene.

••ow was the month that old Sextilis name ••hangd by the Romaine Senates sage degree, And glorying so to innouate the same, ••o haue himselfe new christned did agree, ••oude that Augustus God-father should be, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 whilst Ceres clad him in a mantle fayre Of bearded Corne, still quauering with the ayre. Char. Fitz Ieffrey.