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[Great Queene whom to the liberall Heauens propine]
Great Queene whom to the liberall Heauens propineAll what their force or influence can impart;
Whose Vertues rare, whose Beauties braue but art
Makes thee aboue thy sacred sex to shine.
Resembling much those Goddesses diuine;
The thundrers Bride for thy heroicke hart,
Cytherȩa for proportion of each part,
Joues braine-born gyrle for judgment and ingyne.
But now I feare my flatrie flows to farre;
Three Goddesses in one are rarelie seene,
Nor can a goddesse be vngrate—you are.
What rests then but, a Woman, and a Queene:
A Woman in vnconstancie and change,
A Queene because so statlie & so strange.
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