From T. Morley's First Book of Ballets (1595). - Mr. M.D. to the Author.
Topics: classic
Such was old Orpheus cunning, That sencelesse things drew neere him, And heards of beasts to heare him, The stock, the stone, the Oxe, the Asse came running, Morley! but this enchaunting To thee, to be the Musick-God is wanting. And yet thou needst not feare him; Draw thou the Shepherds still and Bonny lasses, And enuie him not stocks, stones, Oxen, Asses.
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