233 Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed,
Hereat > At this; as a result of this
234 And groans of buried ghosts the heavens did pierce,
ghosts > spirits
235 Where Homer's spirit did tremble all for grief, 236 And cursed the access of that celestial thief.
access > coming
237 238 Another of the same. 239 240 _THe prayse of meaner wits this worke like profit brings, 241 As doth the Cuckoes song delight when Philumena sings. 242 If thou hast formed right true vertues face herein: 243 Vertue her selfe can best discerne, to whom they written bin. 244 If thou hast beautie praysd, let her sole lookes diuine 245 Iudge if ought therein be amis, and mend it by her eine. 246 If Chastitie want ought, or Temperaunce her dew, 247 Behold her Princely mind aright, and write thy Queene anew. 248 Meanewhile she shall perceiue, how farre her vertues sore 249 Aboue the reach of all that liue, or such as wrote of yore: 250 And thereby will excuse and fauour thy good will: 251 Whose vertue can not be exprest, but by an Angels quill. 252 Of me no lines are lou'd, nor letters are of price, 253 Of all which speake our English tongue, but those of thy deuice._ 254 255 W. R. 256 238 Another of the same 239 240 The praise of meaner wits this work like profit brings,
wits > minds
241 As does the cuckoo's song delight when Philomela sings.
Philomela > (She was changed into a nightingale after Tereus had cut out her tongue; hence: the nightingale)