Through discontent of my long fruitlesse stay Against the Brydale day, which is not long: Them seem'd they neuer saw a sight so fayre, Of Fowles so louely, that they sure did deeme Them heauenly borne, or to be that same payre Which through the Skie draw Venus siluer Teeme, For sure they did not seeme To be begot of any earthly Seede, But rather Angels or of Angels breede: So fresh they seem'd as day, 70 Euen as their Brydale day, which was not long: Sweete Themmes runne softly, till I end my Song. From those high Towers, this noble Lord issu ing, Like Radiant Hesper when his golden hayre That like the twins of Ioue they seem'd in sight, Which decke the Bauldricke of the Heauens bright. They two forth pacing to the Riuers side, Receiued those two faire Brides, their Loues delight, Which at th'appointed tyde, MISCELLANEOVS SONNETS. I To the right worshipfull my singular good Frend, Prefixed to Nennio, or A Treatise of Ho so wil seeke by right deserts t'attaine, | And, when thou doost with equall insight see W Vnto the type of true Nobility, And not by painted shewes and titles vaine, The ods twixt both, of both them deem aright, III Upon the Historie of George Castriot, alias Scanderbeg, king of the Epirots, translated into English. Wherefore doth vine antiquitie so vaunt Their huge Pyramids, which do heauen threat. Her ancient monuments of mightie peeres, Who, rapt with wonder of their famous praise, Lo one, whom later age hath brought to light, And meriting a meere triumphant seate. IV Prefixed to The Commonwealth and Government of Venice. "He antique Babel, Empresse of the East, | Yet shewing by their heapes how great they TV antique Babel, Empresse of the East, skie: And second Babell, tyrant of the West, And buried now in their own ashes ly, were. But in their place doth now a third appeare, Fayre Venice, flower of the last worlds delight And next to them in beauty draweth neare, But farre exceedes in policie of right. Yet not so fayre her buildinges to behold As Lewkenors stile that hath her beautie told EDM. SPENCER. APPENDIX OF EPIGRAMS AND SONNETS FROM: A THEATRE wherein be repre fented as wel the miferies & calamities that follow the voluptuous Worldlings, As alfo the greate ioyes and plefures which the faithfull do enioy. An Argument both profitable and Deufed by S. Iohn van- Seene and allowed according Imprinted at London by CVM PRIVILEGIO, |