7. The 1609 Quarto Version

LOe in the Orient when the gracious light,

Lifts vp his burning head,each vnder eye

Doth homage to his new appearing ſight,

Seruing with lookes his ſacred maieſty,

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And hauing climb'd the ſteepe vp heauenly hill,

Reſembling ſtrong youth in his middle age,

Yet mortall lookes adore his beauty ſtill,

Attending on his goulden pilgrimage:

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But when from high-moſt pich with wery car,

Like feeble age he reeleth from the day,

The eyes(fore dutious )now conuerted are

From his low tract and looke an other way:

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So thou,thy ſelfe out-going in thy noon:

Vnlok'd on dieſt vnleſſe thou get a ſonne.

-- Read by Luke Amadeus Ranieri