Primus ades, Francisce; sacras ne despice Musas, Regia progenies, cui regum debita sceptra Gallorum, cum firma annis accesserit ætas. Hæc tibi parva ferunt jam nunc solatia dulces; Dum procul a patriâ raptum, amplexuque tuorum, Ah dolor! Hispanis sors impia detinet oris, Henrico cum fratre; patris sic fata tulerunt Magnanimi, dum fortunâ luctatur iniquâ. Parce tamen, puer, o lacrymis; fata aspera forsan Mitescent, aderitque dies lætissima tandem Post triste exilium patriis cum redditus oris Lætitiam ingentem populorum, omnesque per urbes Accipies plausus, et lætas undique voces; Votaque pro reditu persolvent debita matres. Interea te Pierides comitentur; in altos Jam te Parnassi mecum aude attollere lucos.[444] [Footnote 442: _Bombycum; Libri duo. Scacchia, Ludus; Liber unus._ Pope's _Poemata Italorum_, vol. i. pp. 103-130; pp. 190-210. The former poem is addressed to Isabella Gonzaga, née d'Este.] [Footnote 443: _Poemata Selecta_, pp. 207-266. It will be remembered that Francis I., after Pavia, gave his two sons as hostages to Charles V.] [Footnote 444: 'Thou, Francis, art the first to answer to my call. Scorn not the sacred Muses, scion of a royal line, to whom the sceptre of the kings of Gallia in due season of maturity will pass. Their sweetness even now shall yield thee some slight solace, exiled from home and fatherland by fate impiteous on the Spanish shore, thee and thy brother Henry. So the fortunes of thy mighty-hearted father willed, condemned to strive against unequal doom. Yet spare thy tears: perchance hard fate will soften, and a day of supreme joy will come at last, when, after thy sad exile, once more given to thy nation, thou shalt behold thy country's gladness, and hear the shouts of all her cities and the ringing songs of happiness, and mothers shall perform their vows for thy return. Meanwhile let the maidens of Pieria attend thee; and, with me for guide, ascend into the groves of high Parnassus.']