ABSTRACT
The acts of ages past doth Clio write, The tragedy’s Melpomene’s delight, Thalia is with comedies contented, Euterpe first the shepherd’s pipe invented, Terpsichore doth song and lute apply, Dancing Erato found geometry, Calliope on loving verses dwells, The secrets of the stars Urania tells, Polymnia with choice words the speech doth trim, And great Apollo shares with all of them. Those thrice three feminines we Muses call; But that one masculine is worth them all.
