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Society of Antiquaries of London - Broadsides
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Of such as on fantesye decree & discus:
on other mens works, lo Ovids tale thus

RUde Pan wold nedes one day in companie
Compare to mend Apollos melodye:
And toke his homlie pipe and gan to blo
The Jentil god, that saw his rudnes so
(Although himselfe knewe how for to excell)
Contented stode, to here his conning well:
Pan played, and played boystiouslye
Apollo. played but much melodiously
And such a tune wyth such musicke gave
As wel became hys knowledge for to have.
Midas stode by to Judge and to decre
Whych of them both should best in musycke be
And as he herde Pan playe and use hys song,
He thought it such as he had lyked long
And wonted was to here of others oft
Apollos. harpe and song went very soft
And swete and straunge: as none might sweter be:
But yet thought Midas thys musycke lykes not me.
And therfore strayght ful loude he cried and said:
Pan. to myne eares of both hath better plaied,
quoth then Apollo. syns thus thou demest Pan.
Me to excel that God of Connyng am,
And so doest judge of thynges thou canst no skyll
Mydas henceforth so thus to the I wyll
Thou shalte have eares to shewe and tell I wys:
Both what thy skyll and what thy reason is.
Whych on thy heade shall stande and wytnes be:
Howe thou haste judged thys rurall God and me
Nay be content for I have it sayd
A full sad man stood Mydas then dismayde
And as he felt to trye if it so was
He found he had two eares as hath an Asse
Newly growen out wher as hys own eares stoode
Sore chaunged then his coullour and his moode
But yet for thie, havyng no worde to say
He shooke hys eares and sadly went hys waye
I know no more, but thys I wot and know
That tho the Phrigian kyng be buryed lo
And both hys eares eke wyth hym hydden be
And so far worne that no man shall them se,
Syns such there are that lyve at thys day yet
Whych have hys skyl, hys judgement and his wit
And take upon them both to judge and know
To them I wyshe even thus and to no mo
That as they have hys judgement and hys yeares,
Even so I would they had hys fayre longe eares.


T. Hedley.
Domine salvum fac regem,
Et da pacem in diebus nostris.
Imprinted at London by Hary Sut-
ton, dwellyng in Poules churchyard.

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