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Title: Amour 18
Author: Michael Drayton [ More Titles by Drayton]
Some, when in ryme they of their Loues doe tell, With flames and lightning their exordiums paynt: Some inuocate the Gods, some spirits of Hell, And heauen, and earth doe with their woes acquaint. _Elizia_ is too hie a seate for mee: I wyll not come in _Stixe_ or _Phlegiton_; The Muses nice, the Furies cruell be, I lyke not _Limbo_, nor blacke _Acheron_, Spightful _Erinnis_ frights mee with her lookes, My manhood dares not with foule _Ate_ mell: I quake to looke on _Hecats_ charming bookes, I styll feare bugbeares in _Apollos_ cell. I passe not for _Minerua_ nor _Astraea_. But euer call vpon diuine _Idea_.
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