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CIV. To Susan Countesse Of Montgomery.
Were they that nam'd you, Prophets? Did they see,Even in the dew of grace, what you would bee?
Or did our times require it, to behold
A new Susanna, equall to that old?
Or, because some scarce think that story true,
To make those faithfull, did the Fates send you?
And to your Scene lent no lesse dignitie
Of birth, of match, of forme, of chastitie?
Or, more than borne for the comparison
Of former age, or glory of our one,
Were you advanced, past those times to be
The light, and marke unto posteritie?
Judge they, that can: Here I have rais'd to show
A picture, which the world for yours must know,
And like it too; if they looke equally:
If not, 'tis fit for you, some should envy.
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