Sonnet, VIII.

MVse giue place to my mone, and mone giue place to my musing
One for an others cause, and one for cause of an other.
First to behold him dead: last to behold him aliue.
And thou Shepheards Swaine, that keepes thy sheepe by the mountains,
(Mountaines) of Sicily, and sweet Arcadian Iland,
Oh Meliboeus: leaue, Oh leaue any more to be mourning.
For though his Art bee dead, yet shall it euer abide:
Euer abide, to the end light, as a light to the rest.
Rest that haue wrot of loue: and the del[...]ghts of a louer.
But by the sweete consent, of Pan and Marsias ofspringe.
Sweet consent of a Saint so sweet, of a Fowle an a foule one
Greenes but a foolish man: and such as him d[...]e defend.
Yet will I euer write both to defend and offend:
For to defend his friends, and to offend his foes.