If Orpheus voyce had force to breathe such musicks Love
Through pores of senseles trees, as it could make them move:
If stones good measure daunst the Thebane walls to builde,
To cadens of the tunes which Amphions Lyre did yeeld,
More cause a like effect at least wise bringeth.
O stones, ô trees, learne hearing, Stella singeth.
2 If Love might sweeten so a boy of Shepheards brood,
To make a Lyzard dull to taste Loves food:
If Eagle fierce could so in Grecian maide delight,
As her eyes were his light, her death his endlesse night: