The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Zephyrus ( - )
Alias Favonius [Alias]
Inventarie of the Gabions, in M. George his Cabinet (1638)
Then we inbarked with two boyes in train,
Who recollect our shafts, and these two men:
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As down the river did we softlie slide,
The banks most sweetly smyld on other side:
To see the flowres our hearts did much rejoice
The banwort, dazie, and the fragrant rose;
Favonius in our faces sweetlie blewHis breath, which did our fainting sprits renew.
Then with Sicilian Muse can we dissemble
Our secret flammes, making our voices tremble;
While as we sweetlie sung kinde Amaryllis,
And did complaine of sowre-sweet lovely Phyllis,
So sadly, that the Nymphs of woods and mountains,
And these which haunt the plains and crystall fountainsNymphes.
Bare-legged to the brawns, armes bare and brest,
Like whitest evorie bare unto the waste,
The lillies and the roses of their faces
Running more pleasant made, their waveing tresses,
VVell curled with the winde: all these drew nye
The waters brink, in song to keep reply,
Treading the flowres, VVhen Gall them so espy'd
O! how he cast his eyes on either side.
And wish't t'have smeld one flovvr, vvhere they had traced,
Judge vvhat he vvould have given to have embraced.