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PERIGOT
0 Colin, Colin, the shepheards wye, 190
How I admire ech turning of thy verse
And Cuddie, fresh Cuddie the hefest boye,
How dolefully his doole thou didst rehearse
CUDDIE
Then blowe your pypes shepheards, til you be
at home
The night nigheth fast, yts time to be gone
Bestadde) disposed, ordered
Peregali) equall.
Whilome)once
Rafte) bereft, depriued
Miswent) gon a straye
Ill may) according to Virgile
Infelix o semper ouis pecus
\ mazer) So also do Theocritus and Virgile feigne
pledges of their strife
Enchased) engrauen Such pretie descriptions
euery where \seth Theocritus, to bring in his
Idyllia. For which specialI cause indede he by
that name termeth his AEglogues fur Idyllion
in Greke signifieth the shape or picture of any
thyng, wherof his booke is ful And not, as
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GLOSSE
I haue heard some fondly guesse, that they be |
called not Idyllia, but Haedilia, of the Gotcheardsm
them
Entratled) wrought betwene
Haruest Quetnt) The manner of country 'olke in
haruest tyme
Pousse ) Pease
It fell vpon) Perigot maketh hys song in prayse of
his loue to whom Willy answereth euery Ander
verse By Perigot who is meant, I can not
vprightly say but if it be, who is supposed, his
love destrueth no lesse prayse, then he giueth her
Perigot his Embleme
Vincenti gloria victi
Willyes Embleme
Vinto non villo
Cuddies Embleme.
Felice cht puo
Greete) weeping and complaint
Chaplet) a kindof Garlond lyke a crowne
Leuen) Lightning
Cynthia) was sayd to be the Moone
Gryde) perced
But if) not vnlesse
Squint eye) partiall judgement
Ech haue) so saith Virgile
Et vitula tu dignus, et hic &c
So by enterchaunge of gyfts Cuddie pleaseth
both partes
Doome) judgement
Dempt) for deemed, judged
Wite the witelesse) blame the blamelesse
The shepherd of Ida) was sayd to be Paris.
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Beauties Queene) Venus, to whome Pans adjudged
the golden Apple, as the pryce of her beautie
Embleme
The meaning hereof is very ambiguous for
Perigot by his poesre claming the conquest, and
Willye not yeelding Cuddie the arbiter of theyr
cause, and Patron of his own, semeth tochalenge
it, as his dew, saying, that he, is happy which
can so abruptly ending but hee meaneth eyther
him, that can win the beste, or moderate him
selfe being best, and leaue of with the best.