George Gascoigne. The Princely Pleasures at Kenelworth Castle. The song of Protheus. (original) (raw)

¶ The song of Protheus. from THE PRINCELY PLEASURES AT KENELWORTH CASTLEby George Gascoigne
O Noble Queene give eare, to this my floating muse:And let the right of readie will, my little skill excuse.For heardmen of the seas, sing not the sweetest notes:The winds and waves do roare and crie Where Phoebus seldome floates:Yet since I doe my best, in thankfull wise to sing:Vouchsafe (good Queene) that calme consent these words to you may bring.We yeeld you humble thanks, in mightie Neptunes name.Both for our selves and therewithall, for yonder seemely Dame.A Dame: whom none but you, deliver could from thrall:Ne none but you deliver us, from loitring life withall.She pined long in paine, as overworne with woes:And we consumde in endles care, to fend her from her foes.Both which you set at large, most like a faithfull freend: Your noble name be praisde therefore, and so my song I ende.
Source: Gascoigne, George. The Complete Works of George Gascoigne. Vol. II. John W. Cunliffe, Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910. 105.

¶ The song of Protheus. from THE PRINCELY PLEASURES AT KENELWORTH CASTLEby George Gascoigne

O Noble Queene give eare, to this my floating muse:And let the right of readie will, my little skill excuse.For heardmen of the seas, sing not the sweetest notes:The winds and waves do roare and crie Where Phoebus seldome floates:Yet since I doe my best, in thankfull wise to sing:Vouchsafe (good Queene) that calme consent these words to you may bring.We yeeld you humble thanks, in mightie Neptunes name.Both for our selves and therewithall, for yonder seemely Dame.A Dame: whom none but you, deliver could from thrall:Ne none but you deliver us, from loitring life withall.She pined long in paine, as overworne with woes:And we consumde in endles care, to fend her from her foes.Both which you set at large, most like a faithfull freend: Your noble name be praisde therefore, and so my song I ende.

Gascoigne presenting his poems to Elizabeth I

Source: Gascoigne, George. The Complete Works of George Gascoigne. Vol. II. John W. Cunliffe, Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910. 105.

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