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VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 8, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence ye profane: mell not with holy things
Last Line: Vnto the holy house of betleem.
Subject(s): Love; Muses; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Prophecy & Prophets


Hence ye profane: mell not with holy things
That Sion muse from Palestina brings.
Parnassus is transform'd to Sion hill,
And Iu'ry-palmes her steep ascents done fill.
Now good Saint Peter weeps pure Helicon,
And both the Maries make a Musick mone:
Yea and the Prophet of heauenly Lyre,
Great Salomon, sings in the English Quire,
And is become a newfound Sonetist,
Singing his loue, the holy spouse of Christ:
Like as she were some light-skirts of the rest,
In mightiest Ink-hornismes he can thither wrest.
Ye Sion Muses shall by my deare will,
For this your zeale, and far-admired skill,
Be straight transported from Ierusalem,
Vnto the holy house of Betleem.





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