Classic Poem

To the most iuditious and excellent lyrick-poet. Doctor Campion

V PON my selfe I should lust vengeance take
Should I omitt thy mention in my rimes;
Whose Lines and Notes do lullaby (awake)
In heau'ns of pleasure, these vnpleasant times
Neuer did Lyricks more then happie straines
(Strained out of Arte by Nature, so, with ease)
So purely bitt the moods and various vaines
Of musick and her hearers, as do these.
So thou canst cure the body and the minde
(Rare doctor) with thy two-fold soundest arte:
Hipocrates hath taught thee the one kinde,
Apollo and the Muse the other part:
And both so well, that thou with both dost please:
The minde with pleasure, and the corps with case.