The amorose songes, sonets, and elegies: of M. Alexander Craige, Scoto-Britane
Craig, Alexander, 1567?-1627.
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To CYNTHIA.
PRoud Zeuxis gaue his Pictures all for nought,
Such was the loue he to his labors bore,
That by no gold nor price they could be bought,
And thus saue thanks poore man, he gaind no more
I am as poore, and euen as proud as hee,
For Loue nor Lines I craue no price from thee.
For if thou digne but with a gracious smile,
To looke my Lines, and spie how I am pind,
And with my toyes the swift wingd time begile,
Then am I paide according to my minde▪
Joues oath was Styx, and Phaebus Daphnes haire;
But from hencefoorth I by thy smiles wil sweare.
