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Onerhaile, drawe euer.

‘His Embleme or Poeſie is heere vnder added in Italian, Anchôra ſpewte, the meaning whereof is, that notwitſanding hys extreeme paſsion and luckleſſe loue, yet leaning on hope,he is ſomewhat recomforted.



''His Aegloue is rather morall and generall, then bent to any ſecret or particular purpoſe. It ſpecially containeth a diſcourſe of olde age, in the perſon of Thenot an old Shepheard, who for his crookedneſſe and vnluſtineſſe, is ſcorned of Cuddie an vnhappie Heavdmans boy. The matter verie well accordeth with the ſeaſon of the moneth, the yeare now drooping, and as it were, drawing to his laſt age. For as in this time of yeere, ſo then in our bodies there is a drie and withering colde, whiche congealeth the crudled bloud, and frieſeth the weatherbeaten fleſhe, with ſtormes of Fortune, and hoare froſtes of Care.'' Rh