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The third muse
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Monsier, said Gall, things many of that kinde
To be omitted often do we finde:
Yea time hath also greatest works destroyed,
Wherein the learn'dest pennes have beene imployed.
But if that I should tell what I do know,
An ancient storie I could to you show,
Which I have found in an old manuscript,
But in our late records is overslipt,
Which storie no lesse probable is, than true,
And, my good Monsier, I wwill show it you.
I leave to speak what Hollinshed hath told
Of Cunidag, was Britaine king of old,
The time Vzziah was of Iuda king,
And Ieroboam did ov'r Israel reigne,
Ere Rome a citie was yeers fourtie five,
Ere sons of Rhea did for masterie strive,
How that this Heathen built three cels of stone,
To Mercurie at Bongor built he one,
His way for to direct: then to Apollo
At Cornuel another did he hallow,
For favourable response: the third to Mars,
Where Perth now stands, for to assist his wars.
But good Monsier this storie is too old,
Therefore I leave the rest of it untold,
The time wwill not permit me to out-read it,
I'm sure in Hollinshed yee often read it.
I will a storie of no lesse credite tell,
In after ages truely what befell.
When mightie Romaines came into this soile,
With endlesse labour and undaunted toile,
To be omitted often do we finde:
Yea time hath also greatest works destroyed,
Wherein the learn'dest pennes have beene imployed.
But if that I should tell what I do know,
An ancient storie I could to you show,
Which I have found in an old manuscript,
But in our late records is overslipt,
Which storie no lesse probable is, than true,
And, my good Monsier, I wwill show it you.
I leave to speak what Hollinshed hath told
Of Cunidag, was Britaine king of old,
The time Vzziah was of Iuda king,
And Ieroboam did ov'r Israel reigne,
Ere Rome a citie was yeers fourtie five,
Ere sons of Rhea did for masterie strive,
How that this Heathen built three cels of stone,
To Mercurie at Bongor built he one,
His way for to direct: then to Apollo
At Cornuel another did he hallow,
For favourable response: the third to Mars,
Where Perth now stands, for to assist his wars.
But good Monsier this storie is too old,
Therefore I leave the rest of it untold,
The time wwill not permit me to out-read it,
I'm sure in Hollinshed yee often read it.
I will a storie of no lesse credite tell,
In after ages truely what befell.
When mightie Romaines came into this soile,
With endlesse labour and undaunted toile,