 | Works of John Taylor the Water Poet not included in the folio volume of 1630 |  |
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The Right Honourable, Vertuous, and learned
Lady Mary, late Countesse of Pembrooke.
A Patterne, and a Patronesse she was,
Of vertuous industry and studious learning:
And shee her earthly Pilgrimage did passe,
In Acts which were high honour most concerning.
Braue Wilton house in Wiltshire well can show,
Her admirable workes in Arras fram'd:
Where men, and beasts, seeme like, trees seeme to grow,
And Art (surpass'd by Nature) seemes asham'd,
Thus this renowned Honourable Dame,
Her happy time most happily did spend;
Whose worth recorded in the mouth of fame,
(Vntill the world shall end) shall never end
She wrought so well in Needle-worke, that shee,
Nor yet her workes, shall ere forgoten be.
| Works of John Taylor the Water Poet not included in the folio volume of 1630 | |