Astrophel and Stella - Sixt Song.

O you that heare this voice,     O you that see this face,     Say whether of the choice     Deserues the former place:     Feare not to iudge this bate,     For it is void of hate.     This side doth Beauty take.     For that doth Musike speake;     Fit Oratours to make     The strongest iudgements weake:     The barre to plead their right     Is only true delight.     Thus doth the voice and face,     These gentle Lawiers, wage,     Like louing brothers case,     For fathers heritage;     That each, while each contends,     It selfe to other lends.     For Beautie beautifies     With heau'nly hew and grace     The heau'nly harmonies;     And in this faultlesse face     The perfect beauties be     A perfect harmony.     Musick more loftly swels     In speeches nobly plac'd;     Beauty as farre excels,     In action aptly grac'd:     A friend each party draws     To countenance his cause.     Loue more affected seemes     To Beauties louely light;     And Wonder more esteemes     Of Musickes wondrous might;     But both to both so bent,     As both in both are spent.     Musicke doth witnesse call     The eare his truth to trie;     Beauty brings to the hall     Eye-iudgement of the eye:     Both in their obiects such,     As no exceptions tutch.     The common sense, which might     Be arbiter of this,     To be, forsooth, vpright,     To both sides partiall is;     He layes on this chiefe praise,     Chiefe praise on that he laies.     Then reason, princesse hy,     Whose throne is in the minde,     Which Musicke can in sky     And hidden beauties finde,     Say whether thou wilt crowne     With limitlesse renowne?