Hierus' Gift Out-Done
H IERUS a Bœotian shepheard swaine,
Once entertaining in his cottage poore,
Mercury, Neptune and Ioue (heaun's soueraigne)
Gaue him a sonne, hauing no childe before:
If meaner states then gods, in these hand daies
Should welcome be where some faire women were,
They would (no doubt) bee't spoken to their praise.
Franker then gods, of such rewards appeare:
For where these gods gaue one and gaue no mo
Perhaps these men would giue a brace or two.
Once entertaining in his cottage poore,
Mercury, Neptune and Ioue (heaun's soueraigne)
Gaue him a sonne, hauing no childe before:
If meaner states then gods, in these hand daies
Should welcome be where some faire women were,
They would (no doubt) bee't spoken to their praise.
Franker then gods, of such rewards appeare:
For where these gods gaue one and gaue no mo
Perhaps these men would giue a brace or two.
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