Poems: by Michaell Draiton Esquire

To the Celestiall numbers. Sonnet. 18.

VNto the world, to learning, and to heauen, Three nines there are, to euerie one a nine, One number of the earth, the other both diuine, One woman now makes three odde numbers euen: Nine orders first of Angells be in heauen, Nine Muses do with learning still frequent, These with the Gods are euer resident; Nine worthy ones vnto the world were giuen: My worthy one to these nine worthies addeth, And my faire Muse, one Muse vnto the nine, And my good Angell in my soule diuine, With one more order, these nine orders gladdeth: My Muse, my worthy, and my Angell then, Makes euery one of these three nines a ten.