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Epigr. 13. ad reginam Elizabetham.
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Epigr. 13. ad reginam Elizabetham.
Now fourty solemn feasts, thine english nation.Fedd with sweet peace & plentie all the while.
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O fayrer keeper of the iayrest yle.
Our first great ioyes with greater seconded.
Our second with succeeding ioyes defast,
They with the next extinct and vanished:
The next with greater ioyes, all with the last,
And yet thou liu'st to make vs yet more fayne,
And to set vp new triumphes and new pleasure,
To add more sweetnes to thy sweetest reigne.
To make more roome for ioy which knows no measure.
O liue as do the stars, which shine for euer.
And as the Sunne so rise, but set thou neuer.
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