Bartholomew Griffin - "If great Apollo offered as a dower" lyrics

If great Apollo offered as a dower His burning throne to beauty's excellence; If Jove himself came in a golden shower Down to the earth, to fetch fair Io thence; If Venus in the curled locks were tied Of proud Adonis not of gentle kind; If Tellus for a shepherd's favor died, The favor cruel love to her a**igned; If heaven's winged herald, Hermes, had His heart enchanted with a country maid; If poor Pygmalion were for beauty mad; If gods and men have all for beauty strayed: I am not then ashamed to be included 'Mongst those that love, and be with love deluded.