The Life and Poems of Richard Edwards By Leicester Bradner: A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy |
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My fance fanned onne me somwhat of ye to seegood Laydies all accepte my will this thing I only pr[ay]
Hawarde is not hawghte but of such smylinge cheare
that wolde alure eche gentill harte hir love to holde full de[re]
Dacars is not dawngerus hir talke is nothinge coye
hir noble stature may compare wth hectors wife of troye
Baynam is as bewtiful as nature canne devyse
stedfastenes posesse her harte and chastitie her eyes
Arundell is aunciaunte in thes her tender yeares
in harte in voce in talke in deade a matrons wit appere[s]
Dormor is a darlinge and of suche lively hewe
that who so fedes his eyes on her may sone her bewte rue
Mancell is a merye one and is righte worthi love
whom nature wrawghte so fetusly hir coning for to prove
Coke is cumly and thereto in books setes all her care
in lernyng with the romayne dames of ryghte she may compar[e]
Briges is a blessed wighte and praythe withe harte & voise
which from her cradele hathe bene taughte in vertue to reioice
These eghte nowe serves one noble Quene but if powre were in me
for bewtise prayse and vertues sake eche one a Quene showld be
finis.
R. E.
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