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 Weele strew the shoare with pearle, where  Beta  walks alone, And we will paue her Princely Bower with richest Indian stone. Perfume the ayre, and make it sweete, For such a Goddesse it is meeteappropriate, fitting . For if her eyes for purity contend with Titans  light:  No meruaile then, although they so doe dazell humane sight. 

Sound out your Trumpets then from Londons stately Towers, To beate the stormie winds a-backe, and calme the raging showers. Set to the Cornet and the Flute, The Orpharionlarge instrument of the lute family  and the Lute:  And tune the Tabertabor, small drum  and the Pipe to the sweet Violons: And moue the thunder in the ayre with lowdest Clarionsshrill-sounding trumpet with a narrow tube . 

Beta,  long may thine Altars smoake with yeerely sacrifise, And long thy sacred Temples may their SabbathsSabbaths, day set aside for religious worship  solemnise, Thy Shepheards watch by day and night,  Thy Maides attend the holy light, And thy large Empire stretch her armes from East vnto the West: And  AlbionEngland on the  Appenines +Appenines are a mountain range                         that runs down Italy; a political reference perhaps referring to Spain’s failed conquest of England. aduance her conquering crest. 

FINIS. Mich. Drayton.

¶ The Barginet of Antimachus. +Barginet: bargaret, from the French bergerette , a pastoral song and dance. For ‘Antimachus’, see glossary . The poem was possibly inspired by Theocritus, Idyll , XIX. Author: Thomas Lodge. Structure (May/Ringler): 60: 10×6 aa8b6cc8b6

I N pride of youth, in midst of May, When birds with many a merry Laya short lyric or narrative poem intended to be sung , salute the Sunnes vp-rising: I sate me downe fast by a Spring,  And while these merry Chaunters sing, I fell vpon surmizingimagining, forming ideas . 