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Epig. II. Apoll.

Honour is masculine Gramarians say,
Nor by a woman pourtrait heere I may
Honours true image yet the vertues all
Are feminine and Honour needs must fall
If vertue failes 'tis vertues cheife reward;
Then women in this fæminine regard,
Since all the vertues doe attend vpon her,
I heere present, for th' image of true Honour.