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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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XIII. PROLOUG OF THE XII BUK OF ENEADOS. 127ever, not even yet appeared. Most readers will remember <strong>the</strong>description <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> poet in Marmion, Can<strong>to</strong> VI, st. ii :'A bishop by <strong>the</strong> altar s<strong>to</strong>od,A noble lord <strong>of</strong> Douglas blood,With mitre sheen, and rocquet white.Yet show'd his meek and thoughtful eyeBut little pride <strong>of</strong> prelacy ;More pleased that, in a barbarous age,He gave rude Scotland Virgil's page,Than that beneath his rule he heldThe bishopric <strong>of</strong> fair Dunkeld.'The Prolong <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> xii buk <strong>of</strong> Eneados.Dyonea, ny^^t-hyrd, and wach <strong>of</strong> day,-Th^ starnys chasyt <strong>of</strong> th^ hevyn away,'-Dame Cynthia dovn rollyng in th^ see.And venus lost th^ bewte <strong>of</strong> hir E,Fleand eschamyt within Cylenyus cave 5Mars onbydrew, for all his grundyn glave,Nor frawart Saturn <strong>from</strong> hys mortall speirDurst langar in th^ firmament appeir,Bot stall abak ^ond in hys regioun farBehynd th^ circulat warld <strong>of</strong> lupiter \10Nyc<strong>the</strong>myne, affrayt <strong>of</strong> th^ lyght.Went ondir covert, for gone was tho. nychi ;As fresch Aurora, <strong>to</strong> myghty Tythone ^ spows,Ischit <strong>of</strong> hir safron bed and evir hows,In crawzmysyn cled and granyt violat, 15With sangwyne cape, ih^ selvage purpurat,Onschet th^ wyndois <strong>of</strong> hir large hall,1 MS. ' Tytan.'

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