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VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 8 by JOSEPH HALL

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 @3Sion@1 muse from @3Palestina@1 brings.
@3Parnassus@1 is transform'd to @3Sion@1 hill,
And @3Iu'ry-palmes@1 her steep ascents done fill.
Now good Saint @3Peter@1 weeps pure @3Helicon,@1
And both the @3Maries@1 make a Musick mone:
Yea and the Prophet of heauenly Lyre,
Great @3Salomon,@1 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 @3Sion@1 Muses shall by my deare will,
For this your zeale, and far-admired skill,
Be straight transported from @3Ierusalem,@1
Vnto the holy house of @3Betleem.@1



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