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THE AUTHOR TO HIS MUSE by ARTHUR GORGES

First Line: TO THOSE THAT (WITH A SQUINT MALIGNANT EYE)
Last Line: WHAT MORALES AESOPS-FABLES DO CONTAINE.

To those that (with a squint malignant eye)
At this great wracke do fleering gestures glaunce:
(If such there be) my Muse doe thou replye.
Those viprous harts that feast on state mischaunce,
Are loathsome birds that theire owne nests defile,
Whose hell-hatcht hoaps heavens vengance will beguile.

But as for those, whom ignoranc so blinds,
To count this Poeme Idle Ballatrye
Because themselves with hood-winckt blunddringe mynds
Cannot discearne a vailed misterye.
Bid such dymme sighted Owles goe learne againe,
What morales AEsops-fables do containe.



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