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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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22. Upon the Lord William Cecil's Motto.

Virtute Duce, Comite Fortuna:
Vertue my Leader, Fortune my Companion.

Divine Elizabeth, Fortune did grace,
(Your wisht Companion) with an Earls high place:

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Since there was None, her Pleasure durst Rebuke;
Why made She not, Vertue your Leader, Duke?