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And great Narcis Vinnols, that to the skie
With loftie verse did blaze his woorthy praise,
Make him a crowne of Laurell faire and greene,
Whose fame shall not (though all the world decaies)
Another for a personage most high,
Whose verse shall reach as high as may be seene:
He shall be matcht with him that loued Laura,
His name, the famous Crespi Valladaura.
Me thinkes I see an Earle most excellent,
The noble Lord surnamed of his Oliue,
Which, while the world shall last: amongst his owne
And strangers, it shall flourish and suruiue:
His comely verse shall shine most orient
With perfect light, which he deriues alone
From heate that from his Centelles doe arise
Shining as bright as stars in cleerest skies.
And Nymphes, when that the heauens shall ioy you all
With Iohn Fernandz, as now but with supposes,
There shall no place be voide in all this land,
Where sowe ye may not Lillies and fine Roses:
And thou (light fame) stretch out thy flight, and call
Thy mighty powers, and vse them heere at hand:
And giue him that surname most souerayn
Thou gauest vnto the famous Mantuan.
And now I doe behold that Poet rare,
Iayme Gaçull, who in Valencian ryme
Did shew his pregnant and his liuely wit,
Which mounted to the highest cloudes in time:
And Fenollar, whom I well to compare
To Tityrus my thoughts cannot omit:
For sounding heere his sweetest verse along
These banks, the world shall heare his solemne song.
Pinedas songs so copious and so fine,
Shall also make my sweete banks to resound,
By whose braue verse Pan conquer’d needes must be,
Tygres made gentle: and they shall rebound
His famous name, which neuer shall decline,
Vnto the highest spheares in dignitie.
I hope by him more honour to obtaine,
Then proudest Smyrna did by Homer gaine.
Behold the staied, milde, and sweetest grace,
Wherewith Vincent Ferrand, a man most graue,
Shall shew his highest iudgement, and his skill:
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