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 The Stars with deep amaze Stand fixt in stedfast gaze,
 * Bending one way their pretious influence,

And will not take their flight, For all the morning light,
 * Or Lucifer that often warn'd them thence;

But in their glimmering Orbs did glow, Untill their Lord himself bespake, and bid them go.

And though the shady gloom Had given day her room,
 * The Sun himself with-held his wonted speed,

And hid his head for shame, As his inferiour flame,
 * The new-enlightn'd world no more should need;

He saw a greater Sun appear Then his bright Throne, or burning Axletree could bear.

The Shepherds on the Lawn, Or ere the point of dawn,
 * Sate simply chatting in a rustick row;

Full little thought they than, That the mighty Pan
 * Was kindly com to live with them below;

Perhaps their loves, or els their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busie keep. Rh