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The ninth Muse.
The ninth Muse.
What! Could there more be done, let any say,
Nor I did to prevent this dolefull day?
For when I saw Galls fatall constellation
Would not permit him in this Earthly station
Long to abide; then did I give a tryall,
To make impartiall fate susteene denyall,
By herbarising while I prov'd my skill,
On top of Law-Tay, and stay Mooredowne hill,
Collecting vegetables in these parts,
By all the skill of Apollinian Arts,
If possible't had been, fate to neglect him,
By heavenlie skill immortall for to make him.
But sith that Phaebus could not stemme the bloud
Of Hyacinthus in his sowning moud,
How then should I? a mortall! ah too shallow!
In wit and art presse to outreach Apollo?
Far be the thought, I therefore must absent me,
And never more unto the World present me,
But solitarie with my Gabions stay,
And help them for to mourne till dying day.
Nor I did to prevent this dolefull day?
For when I saw Galls fatall constellation
Would not permit him in this Earthly station
Long to abide; then did I give a tryall,
To make impartiall fate susteene denyall,
By herbarising while I prov'd my skill,
On top of Law-Tay, and stay Mooredowne hill,
Collecting vegetables in these parts,
By all the skill of Apollinian Arts,
If possible't had been, fate to neglect him,
By heavenlie skill immortall for to make him.
But sith that Phaebus could not stemme the bloud
Of Hyacinthus in his sowning moud,
How then should I? a mortall! ah too shallow!
In wit and art presse to outreach Apollo?
Far be the thought, I therefore must absent me,
And never more unto the World present me,
But solitarie with my Gabions stay,
And help them for to mourne till dying day.
Then