Lychnocausia Sive Moralia Facum Emblemata: Lights Morall Emblems: Authore Roberto Farlaeo Scoto-Britanno [i.e. by Robert Farley] |
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To the most Noble and Illustrious Lady, both for Nobility and Piety, as of Vertue a rare and peerlesse example, Lady Anne Kare, Countesse of Ancram. |
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To the most Noble and Illustrious Lady, both for Nobility and Piety, as of Vertue a rare and peerlesse example, Lady Anne Kare, Countesse of Ancram.
The Lizards eyes the face of man amazeth,Looking on which the more and more it gazeth:
When I your heaven infused graces view,
Madam, my sense amazed stares on You.
Heaven tempers so its gifts in You alone,
As that all graces seeme combin'd in one;
When I do homage to Nobility,
Straight on it doth reflect Your piety;
So earthly glory and that of heav'n begun
Makes You a glorious object like the Sunne,
Which darreth forth so many rayes of light,
As that they dazle this my scantling fight.
In You great Iunos stately majestie
Is fraught with Christian love and charity;
You have what vertues learn'd Minerva hath,
And for her ægis, you are arm'd with faith:
What's Venus beautie to Your sacred face,
Which is the Physiognomie of grace?
If for the golden apple there should be
A strife amongst the goddesses; To thee
Let Paris give it, so he surely shall
Please all the three, Your selfe being more than all.
Your Honours humble, and most devoted to serve you, Robert Farlie.
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