Penelopes complaint: or, A mirrour for wanton minions. Taken out of Homers Odissea, and written in English verse, by Peter Colse

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Title: Penelopes complaint: or, A mirrour for wanton minions. Taken out of Homers Odissea, and written in English verse, by Peter Colse
Author: Colse, Peter.
Publication: London :: Printed by [Valentine Simmes for] H. Iackson dwelling in Fleetstreet, and are to be sold at his shop vnder Temple-barre gate,; 1596.
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The speech of her wooers.

AH Princely nymph Penelope,
A goddesse, were thou not to coy,
Pallas may not compare with thee,
Nor Venus with her blinded boy,
Mycene could not thy craft fulfill,
Nor had Al••mena halfe thy skill.

Say (sweete Icarius daughter deare)
Do thou no longer vs delay,
Whom wilt thou take to wedded Pheere,
That al the rest may post away.
Either say yea, or else denie:
Thou must take one, or al defie.

No worthles wight shal with thee wed,
Though thou the worst amongst vs chuse,
Feare not: Vlysses he is dead:
Shew reason if thou vs refuse:
Say, if thou loathe our Parentage,
Or dost dislike our personage.