Amour 20
Reading sometyme, my sorrowes to beguile, I find old Poets hylls and floods admire: One, he doth wonder monster-breeding Nyle, Another meruailes Sulphure Aetnas fire. Now broad-brymd Indus, then of Pindus height, Pelion and Ossa, frosty Caucase old, The Delian Cynthus, then Olympus weight, Slow Arrer, franticke Gallus, Cydnus cold. Some Ganges, Ister, and of Tagus tell, Some whir-poole Po, and slyding Hypasis; Some old Pernassus where the Muses dwell, Some Helycon, and some faire Simois: A, fooles! thinke I, had you Idea seene, Poore Brookes and Banks had no such wonders beene.
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