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N hill, a frame an hundred cubttes hie
O I saw, an hundred pdlers eke about,
All of fine Diamant decking the front,
Andfashwnd were they all m Donke wise
Ofbrtcke, ne yet of marble was the wall,
But shining Chrtstall, which from top to base
Out ofdeepe vauie threw forth a thousand rayes
Vpon an hundred steps of purest golde
Golde was the parget and the sielyng eke
Did shine all scaly with fine golden plates
The floore was Iaspts, and of Emeraude
0 worldes vatnenesse A sodem earthquake he,
Shaking the hill euenfrom the botlome deepe,
Tkrewe downe this building to the lowest stone
Wen dtd appeare to me a sharped spire
T Of diamant, ien feete eche way in square,
Iustly proporttonde vp vnto his height,
So hie as mought an Archer reache with sight
Vpon the top therof was set a pot
Made of the mettall that we honour most
And in this golden vessell couched were
The ashes of a mtghtte Emperour
Vponfoure corners of the base there lay
To beare the frame, foure great Lions of golde
A worthie lombefor such a worthie corps
Alas, nought in this worlde but griefe endures
A sodatne tempest from the heauen, I saw,
Wtlhflushe stroke downe this noble monument
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Rauisht I was to see so rare a thing,
When barbarous villatnes tn dtsordred heape,
Outraged the honour of these noble bowes
I hearde the tronke to grone vnder the wedge
And since I saw the roote in hie disdaine
Sende forth againe a twinne of forked trees
Saw the birde that dares beholde the Sunne,
With feeble flight venture to mount to heauen
By more and more she gan to trust htr wings,
Still folowing th'example ofhir damme.
/ saw hir rise, and with a larger flight
Surmount the ioppes euen of the hiesl htlles,
And pierce the cloudes, and with hir wings to reache
The place where is the temple of the Gods,
There was she lost, and sodenly I saw
Where tombhng through the aire in lompe of fire,
All flaming downe she fell vpon the plaine
I saw hir bodie turned all to dust,
And saw thefoule that shunnes the cherefull light
Out of hir ashes as a worme arise
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Hen all astonned with this nightly ghost,
I saw an hideous body big and strong,
Long was his beard, and side did hang his hair,
A grisly forehed and Saturnekke face
Leaning against the belly of a pot
He shed a water, whose oulgushtng slreame
Ran flowing all along the creekie shoare
I saw raisde vp on ptllers of luorie,
Where once the Troyan Duke with Turnus fought
Whereofthe bases were of richest golde,
And at hisfeete a bitch Wolfe did giue sucke
Vie chapters Alabaster, Christallfrises,
To two yong babes In his right hand he bare
The double front of a triumphall arke
The tree of peace, in left the conquering Palme,
On eche side poriratde was a victorie
His head was garmsht with the Laurel bow
With golden wings in habile of a Nymph
Then sodenly the Palme and Oliue fell,
And set on hie vpon triumphing chaire,
And faire greene Laurel witherd vp and dide
The auncient glorie of the Rornane lordes
The worke did shewe it selfe not wrought by man,
But rather made by his owne skilfull hande
Ard by a nuers stde, a wailing Nimphe,
That forgeth thunder dartesfor loue his sire H: Folding hir artnes with thousand sighs to
Let me no more see faire thing vnder heauen,
heauen
Stth I haue seene so faire a thing as this, Did tune hir plaint to jailing niters sound,
With sodame falling broken all to dust
Renting hirfaire visage and golden haire,
Where ts (quod she) this whtlome honored face ?
Where is thy glory and the aunaent pratse,
Hen I behelde the jaire Dodonian tree, Where all worldes hap was reposed,
Vpon seuen hilles throw forth his gladsome When erst of Gods and man I worshtpt was ?
shade,
Alas, suffisde it not that ciuile bate
And Conquerers bedecked with his leaues Made me the spoile and bootie of the world
Along the bankes of the Italian slreame But this new Hydra mete to be assailde
There many auncient Trophees were erect, Euen by an hundred such as Hercules,
Many a spoilt, and many goodly signes, With seuen springing heds of monstrous crimes.
To shewe the greatnesse of the stately race, So many Neroes and Caltgulaes
That erst descended from the Trotan blond Must sttll bring forth to rule this erohed shore.