And then concludes thus.
Not any one of all these honord parts
Your Princely happes, and habites that
do moue,
And, as it were, ensorcell all the hearts
Of Christen kings to quarrell for your
loue,
But to possesse, at once and all the good
Arte and engine, and euery starre aboue
Fortune or kinde, could farce in flesh
and bloud,
Was force inough to make so many striue
For your person, which in our world stoode
By all consents the minionst mayde to
wiue.
Where ye see that all the parts of her commendation
which were
particularly remembred in twenty verses before, are
wrapt vp in the two
verses of this last part, videl.
Not any one of all your honord parts,
Those Princely haps and habites, &c.
This figure serues for amplification, and also for
ornament, and to
enforce perswasion mightely. Sir Geffrey Chaucer,
father of our English
Poets, hath these verses following in the distributor.
When faith failes in Priestes sawes,
And Lords hestes are holden for lawes,
And robberie is tane for purchase,
And lechery for solace
Then shall the Realme of Albion
Be brought to great confusion.
Where he might haue said as much in these words:
when vice abounds, and
vertue decayeth in Albion, then &c. And as another
said,
When Prince for his people is wakefull
and wise,
Peeres ayding with armes, Counsellors
with aduise,
Magistrate sincerely vsing his charge,
People prest to obey, nor let to runne
at large,
Prelate of holy life, and with deuotion
Preferring pietie before promotion,
Priest still preaching, and praying for
our heale:
Then blessed is the state of a common-weale.
All which might haue bene said in these few words, when euery man in charge and authoritie doeth his duety, & executeth his function well, then is the common-wealth happy.
[Sidenote: Epimone, or the Loue burden.]
The Greeke Poets who made musicall ditties to be song
to the lute or harpe, did vse to linke their staues
together with one verse running throughout the whole
song by equall distance, and was, for the most part,
the first verse of the staffe, which kept so good sence
and conformitie with the whole, as his often repetition
did geue it greater grace. They called such linking
verse Epimone, the Latines versus intercalaris,
and we may terme him the Loue-burden, following the
originall, or if it please you, the long repeate:
in one respect because that one verse alone beareth
the whole burden of the song according to the originall:
in another respect, for that it comes by large distances
to be often repeated, as in this ditty made by the
noble knight Sir Philip Sidney,
My true loue hath my heart and I haue
his,
By iust exchange one for another geuen:
I holde his deare, and mine he cannot


