Of Homer and his birth

THe Poet Homer Chius claimes,
Colophon doth the léeke:
And Smyrne sweares that he is hirs
that was the learned Greeke.
Of Salamine some say he was,
of Iö other some:
And diuers make report that he
of Thessale line did come.
Thus sundred and deuided are
the peoples mindes of thée,
(Thou Princely Poet) but my thought
with neyther doth agree.
For I assuredly suppose
and déeme the Heauenly Speare
Thy soyle, and Pallas lap the wombe
that did thy body beare.
Hir breast (the Dug) that thou didst suck
in Cradle when thou layst:
With haughtie stile so much (thou Gréeke)
thy mazed head dismayst.