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The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania

Written by the right honorable the Lady Mary Wroath
Wroth, Mary (ca. 1586-ca. 1640)

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[Egypts Pyramid's inclose their Kings]

Egypts Pyramid's inclose their Kings,
But this farr brauer, nobler things;
Vertue, Beauty, Loue, Faith, all heere lye
Kept in Myras Tombe, shut from eye:
The Phœnix dyes to raise another faire,
Borne of her ashes, to be heire;
So this sweete Place may claime that right in woe,
Since heere she lyes, Heauen willing so.
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