Summa Totalis or, All in All, and, the same for euer Or, an Addition to Mirum in Modum. By the first Author, Iohn Dauies |
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To the right Honourable mine approued good Lord and
Master, Thomas Lord Elsmere, Lord Chancellor of England:
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To the right Honourable mine approued good Lord and Master, Thomas Lord Elsmere, Lord Chancellor of England:
and to his Right Noble Lady, and Wife Alice, Countesse of Derby, my good Lady and Mistresse, be all felicitie, consisting in the sight of the Obiectiue Beatitude.
The Time, my duty, and your deere desert,(Deseruedly Right Noble) do conspire,
To make me consecrate [besides my Heart]
This Image to you, forg'd with heauenly Fire!
The Backe-parts of his Forme, who form'd this All,
(Characterd by the Hand of louing Feare)
Are shaddovv'd here: but (ah) they are too small
To shevv their greatnesse, vvwhich ne're
But, though that Greatnesse be past quantity,
And Goodnes doth all quality exceed,
Yet I, this Forme of Formelesse Deity,
Drewe by the Squire, and Compasse of our Creed:
Then (vvith your greater Gvifts) accept this small
Yet (being right) it's more then All in All!
Your Honors in all duety, most bounden Iohn Dauies of Hereford.
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