icadas:
Mugiunt Colles, & anhela fessis
Silva Iuvencis.
The streams which Milk and Honey yeild,
Their passage cut through open field,
And the full banks with Nectar swell'd
Doe drowne the flowrie plaine.
The glad Corne in the restles stalke
Waves, and the fields as wee doe walke,
So fruitfull reele, to any balke
The Heat no spight doth owe.
The Herdsmans Pipe to's wandring Goats,
Provokes the Grashoppers hoarse notes;
The tyred Herd with strayned throats,
Makes Hills and Woods to low.
Pace subsultant juga, pace rident
Tetrica rupes: leve separatos
Otium colleis amat, & sequestri
Gaudia pagi.
Te _Ceres_ flavis redimita culmis,
Magne pacati moderator orbis,
Te suis AEstas opulenta Circum-
fundit aristis.
Supplici Myrtus tibi servit umbra,
Serviunt Lauri: tibi celsa longe
Quercus assurgit, tremuloq; pinus
Vertice nutat.
Siderum praeses, dominusq; terrae,
Lucida Romam speculatus aree,
Regna tranquillet, Cupidoq; patrem
Te velit orbi.
The Mountaines leape, and rough Rocks smile
For gentle Peace rejoyceth still
Such solitary roomes to fill
Hills set apart, 'lone Townes.
_Ceres_ with yellow Chaplet, and
The Summer rich with eares doth stand,
Great Prince of our appeased Land,
Thee to encompasse round.
The Myrtle begs with humble shade
To serve thee and the Laurel's glade;
The lofty Oake doth rise; Its head
The trembling Pine doth bow;
Hee that o're Starrs and earth hath powre,
Beholding us, from his bright Towre,
Calms all, and sets thee father o're
The covetous world below.
Laurus annosum tibi signet aevum:
Fata te norint, properentque parcae
Nescium carpi tibi destinatos
Stamen in annos.
Quaeq; formosos sedet inter igneis,
Sedulam pro te miserata _Romam_
Virgo, quam circum glomerantur albis
Astra choreis.
Curet effusas Latii querelas,
Virginum castas juvenumque voces
Curet, & votis procerum reclinem
accommodet aurem.
The Laurell signe long life to thee,
Let Fates and destinies agree
To twine thy thred, which cannot bee
Cut 'till th'appointed time.
May shee amidst those glorious fires,
For thy sake, pittying our desires,
'Bout wh
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