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His Divine Weekes And Workes with A Compleate Collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full Workes: Translated and written by yt famous Philomusus: Iosvah Sylvester

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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE the Earle of Essex, Earle Marshall of England, &c.

EDEN.

Great Strong-bowe's heir, no self-conceipt doth cause
Mine humble wings aspire to you, vnknowne:
But, knowing this, that your renown alone
(As th'Adamant, and as the Amber drawes:
That, hardest steel; this, easie-yeelding strawes)
Atterrs the stubborn, and attracts the prone:
I haue presum'd (O Honors Paragon!)
To graue your Name (which all Iberia awes)
Heer, on the fore-front of this little Pile;
T'inuite the vertuous to a sacred feast,
And chase-away the vitious and the vile;
Or stop their lothsom enuious tongues, at least.
If I haue err'd, let my submission scuse:
And daign to grace my yet vngraced Muse.
I. S.