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Os Mu]ic\%
In the time of our late Queen Elizabethwhich was
truly a golden Age ( for such a world of refined wits
and excellent spirits it produced* whose like are hard-
ly to be hoped for, in any succeeding Age) aboveo-
thers, who honoured Poesy with theirpennes and pra*
&ice ( to omit her Majesty, who had a Angular gift
herein), were Edward Earlaof Oxsord, the Lord Backj-
hurlt, Henry Lord Paget: oar Phcenixt the noble Sir
Philip Sidney: M. Edward JOier, M. Edmmd Spencer^
Mafter Samuel Daniel, with sundry others; whom (to-
gether with those admirable wits, yet living and so
well known ) not out of Envy, but to avoyd cedious-
ness, I overpass. Thus much of Poetry.
CHAP. XL
Os MuJickj
Mllsick,a siller to Poetry, next craveth your ac-
quaintance (if your Genius be sodisposed.) I
know there are many, who are adeo dpv&os 9 and of
such disproportioned spirits, that they avoid her
company 5 as a great Cardinail in Rome^ did Roses
at their firft coming in, that to avoyd their sent, he
built him an house in the champaigne far srom any
towne : or, (as with a Rofe not long since, a great
Ladie’scbeek in England ) their eares are ready to bii-
ster at the tendresl touch thereof. I dare not pass so
rafh a censure of these as Pindar doth, or the Italian,
having fitted a proverb to the sameessest. Whom God
loves not, that man loves not rmtfic\: but I am verily
perswaded that they are by nature very ill disposed,
and of such a brutifh stupidiry, that scarce any thing
else that is good and savoureth of virtue, is to be found
in them. Never wise man (I think) queftioned the-law-
ful 1 ufe hereos, since it is an immediategift of heaven
feestovred on mgn, whereby to praise and magnify his
, Creator^
In the time of our late Queen Elizabethwhich was
truly a golden Age ( for such a world of refined wits
and excellent spirits it produced* whose like are hard-
ly to be hoped for, in any succeeding Age) aboveo-
thers, who honoured Poesy with theirpennes and pra*
&ice ( to omit her Majesty, who had a Angular gift
herein), were Edward Earlaof Oxsord, the Lord Backj-
hurlt, Henry Lord Paget: oar Phcenixt the noble Sir
Philip Sidney: M. Edward JOier, M. Edmmd Spencer^
Mafter Samuel Daniel, with sundry others; whom (to-
gether with those admirable wits, yet living and so
well known ) not out of Envy, but to avoyd cedious-
ness, I overpass. Thus much of Poetry.
CHAP. XL
Os MuJickj
Mllsick,a siller to Poetry, next craveth your ac-
quaintance (if your Genius be sodisposed.) I
know there are many, who are adeo dpv&os 9 and of
such disproportioned spirits, that they avoid her
company 5 as a great Cardinail in Rome^ did Roses
at their firft coming in, that to avoyd their sent, he
built him an house in the champaigne far srom any
towne : or, (as with a Rofe not long since, a great
Ladie’scbeek in England ) their eares are ready to bii-
ster at the tendresl touch thereof. I dare not pass so
rafh a censure of these as Pindar doth, or the Italian,
having fitted a proverb to the sameessest. Whom God
loves not, that man loves not rmtfic\: but I am verily
perswaded that they are by nature very ill disposed,
and of such a brutifh stupidiry, that scarce any thing
else that is good and savoureth of virtue, is to be found
in them. Never wise man (I think) queftioned the-law-
ful 1 ufe hereos, since it is an immediategift of heaven
feestovred on mgn, whereby to praise and magnify his
, Creator^