Public Domain Poetry And Stories - Prefixed to Sir David Murray's Sophonisba &c. (1611). - To my kinde friend Da: Murray. by Michael Drayton
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Prefixed to Sir David Murray's Sophonisba &c. (1611). - To my kinde friend Da: Murray.

    By Michael Drayton



    In new attire (and put most neatly on)
    Thou Murray mak'st thy passionate Queene apeare,
    As when she sat on the Numidian throne,
    Deck'd with those Gems that most refulgent were.
    So thy stronge muse her maker like repaires,
    That from the ruins of her wasted vrne,
    Into a body of delicious ayres:
    Againe her spirit doth transmigrated turne,
    That scortching soile which thy great subiect bore,
    Bred those that coldly but exprest her merit,
    But breathing now vpon our colder shore,
    Here shee hath found a noble fiery spirit,
        Both there, and here, so fortunate for Fame,
        That what she was, she's euery where the same.



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