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Quotation by John Lyly
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Alexander and CampaspeEuphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1579), ed. Edward Arber (1868)MidasRelated Subjects
poets (5) poetry (5) truth (4) gods (4) goddesses (4) history (3) rape (3) literature (2) beauty (2) morality (2)
Pan's Syrinx was a girl indeed,
Though now she's turned into a reed;
From that dear reed Pan's pipe does come,
A pipe that strikes Apollo dumb;
Nor flute, nor lute, nor gittern can
So chant it, as the pipe of Pan;
Though now she's turned into a reed;
From that dear reed Pan's pipe does come,
A pipe that strikes Apollo dumb;
Nor flute, nor lute, nor gittern can
So chant it, as the pipe of Pan;
John Lyly (1553–1606), British poet. Midas. . .
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.
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