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need I mourn, seeing Pan our sacred king

Was of that nymph fair Syrinx coy disdained?

The world's great light which comforteth each thing,

All comfortless for Daphne's sake remained.

If gods can find no help to heal the sore

Made by love's shafts, which pointed are with fire,

Unhappy Corin, then thy chance deplore,

Sith they despair by wanting their desire.

I am not Pan though I a shepherd be,

Yet is my love as fair as Syrinx was.

My songs cannot with Phœbus' tunes agree,

Yet Chloris' doth his Daphne's far surpass.

How much more fair by so much more unkind,

Than Syrinx coy, or Daphne, I her find!