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TO THE TRULY NOBLE KNIGHT SIR CHR. HATTON, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To you (whose recreations, sir, might be
Last Line: Twere but a lesson worthy such an ear.
Subject(s): Hatton, Sir Christopher (1540-1591); Plays & Playwrights


TO you (whose recreations, sir, might be
Others' employments; whose quick soul can see
There may, besides a hawk, good sport be found,
And music heard, although without a hound)
I send my muse: be pleas'd to hear her strain,
When y' are at truce with time. 'Tis a low vein;
But were her breast enrag'd with holier fire,
That she could force, when she but touch'd her lyre,
The waves to leap above their clifts, dull earth
Dance round the centre and create new birth
In every element, and outcharm each sphere;
'Twere but a lesson worthy such an ear.





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