DAIPHANTUS.
Proem
Sing the old World in an infant story!
I sing the new World in an ancient ditty!
I sing this World; yes, this World's shame and glory!
I sing a Medley of rigour and of pity!
I sing the Court's, City's, and the Country's fashions!
Yet sing I but of Love and her strange Passions!
I sing that anthem lovers sigh in sadness!
I sing sweet times of joys in wo[e]-ven verses!