Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 9, by JOSEPH HALL Poet's Biography First Line: Enuie ye muses, at your thriuing mate Last Line: Be gossips to those ribald rymes of thine. Subject(s): Cupid; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Eros | ||||||||
Enuie ye Muses, at your thriuing Mate, Cupid hath crowned a new Laureat: I saw his Statue gayly tyr'd in greene, As if he had some second Phoebus beene. His Statue trim'd with the Venerean tree, And shrined faire within your sanctuarie. What, he, that earst to gaine the ryming Goale The worne Recitall-post of Capitolle, Rymed in rules of Stewish ribaldry, Teaching experimentall Baudery? Whiles th'itching vulgar tickled with the song, Hanged on their vnreadie Poets tongue. Take this ye patient Muses: and foule shame Shall waite vpon your once prophaned name. Take this ye muses, this so high dispight, And let all hatefull lucklesse birds of night: Let Scriching Oules nest in your razed roofes, And let your floore with horned Satyres hoofe Be dinted and defiled euery morne: And let your walles be an eternall scorne: What if some Shordich furie should incite Some lust-stung letcher, must he needs indite The beastly rites of hyred Venerie, The whole worlds vniuersall baud to bee? Did neuer yet no damned Libertine, Nor elder Heathen, nor new Florentine, Tho they were famous for lewd libertie, Venture vpon so shamefull villanie. Our Epigrammatarians olde and late, Were wont be blam'd for too licentiate. Chast men, they did but glance at Lesbias deed, And handsomely leaue off with cleanly speed. But Artes of Whoring: stories of the Stewes, Ye Muses can ye brooke, and may refuse? Nay let the Diuell, and Saint Valentine, Be gossips to those ribald rymes of thine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MESSAGE FROM THE SLEEPER AT HELL'S MOUTH: 6. ONESELF AT HELL'S MOUTH by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER SONNET: O HUSBAND! by ANNE WALDMAN EROS by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: SONG by JOHN DRYDEN A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 5. HIS DISCOURSE WITH CUPID by BEN JONSON CUPID MISTAKEN by MATTHEW PRIOR DEATH AND CUPID; AN ALLEGORY by JOHN GODFREY SAXE AN EPIGRAM ON JOHN MARSTON by JOSEPH HALL ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 1 by JOSEPH HALL ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 2. ANTHEME FOR CHRISTMAS DAY by JOSEPH HALL |
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