Orpharion
P. From [Greene's] Orpharion (1599)
[Greenes Orpharion./
Wherin is discoue-/
red a musicall concorde of pleasant/
Histories, many sweet moodes graced with/
such harmonious discords,
as agreeing in a delight-/
full closse, they sound both pleasure and profit/
to the eare./
Heerein also as in a Diateheron, the branches of Vertue,
ascending and descending by degrees: are covnited in/
the glorious praise of women-kind./
With diuers Tragicall and Comicall Histories/
Presented by Orpheus and Arion , being as full of/
profit as of pleasure./
Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit vtile dulci./
Robertus Greene, in Artibus Magister ./
[Greenes Orpharion./
Wherin is discoue-/
red a musicall concorde of pleasant/
Histories, many sweet moodes graced with/
such harmonious discords,
as agreeing in a delight-/
full closse, they sound both pleasure and profit/
to the eare./
Heerein also as in a Diateheron, the branches of Vertue,
ascending and descending by degrees: are covnited in/
the glorious praise of women-kind./
With diuers Tragicall and Comicall Histories/
Presented by Orpheus and Arion , being as full of/
profit as of pleasure./
Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit vtile dulci./
Robertus Greene, in Artibus Magister ./
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