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

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XXIV. THE MIRROUR FOR MAGISTRATES. 28^7 And pale Cin<strong>the</strong>a, with her borowed lightBeginning <strong>to</strong> supply her bro<strong>the</strong>rs place,was past <strong>the</strong> Noonesteede syxe degrees in sight,when sparklyng starres amyd <strong>the</strong> heauens facewith twinkling light shone ^on <strong>the</strong> earth apace,That, whyle <strong>the</strong>y brought about <strong>the</strong> nightes chare,The darke had dimmed <strong>the</strong> daye ear I was ware.8 And sorowing I <strong>to</strong> see <strong>the</strong> sommer flowers,The liuely greene, <strong>the</strong> lusty leas forlorne,The sturdy trees so shattered with <strong>the</strong> showers,The fieldes so fade that floorisht so beforne,It taught me wel all earthly thinges be borneTo dye <strong>the</strong> death, for nought long time may last.The sommers beauty yeeldes <strong>to</strong> winters blast.9 Then looking vpward <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> heauens leameswith nightes starres thicke powdred euery where,which erst so glistened with <strong>the</strong> golden streamesThat chearefull Phebus spred downe <strong>from</strong> his sphere,Beholding dark oppressing day so neare :The sodayjie^sight reduced <strong>to</strong> my minde „^^^The sundry chaungesjhatin^rthjve fynde.10 That, musing on this worldly wealth in thought,which comes and goes more faster than we seeThe flyckering flame that with <strong>the</strong> fyer is wrought,My busie minde presented vn<strong>to</strong> meSuch .MLaLpieres as in this realme had be :That <strong>of</strong>te I wisht^ome would <strong>the</strong>ir woes descryue,To warne <strong>the</strong> rest whom fortune left aliue.^ Printed ' shoen.'

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