Jewels of ingenvity, Set in a Coronet of Poetry By the Industry of T. J. [i.e. Thomas Jordan] |
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An Acrostick,
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An Acrostick,
Consecrated to the renowned name of the most Youthfull, Beautifull, Virtuous, and truly Honourable, The Lady CECILIA ARUNDELL, Daughter to the Right Honourable, the Lord Arundell of Warder.
Could I contain all Languages, and beA Prelate in the Art of Poetry:
Eminent Lady! I should scarce inherit
Rhetorick enough to write your meanest merit:
Cherubims tongues, are fittest to relate,
Virtues (like yours) which none can imitate:
If I should call you beautiful and wise,
Noble, chast, merciful, and say your Eyes
Lend lustre to the day, they'd think I do
Dissemble though all these come short of you:
If I should say but what your virtues be,
Every Truth would look like Flattery;
As men that round about the World have been,
Live mute, and dare not tell what they have seen.
Lady you are a Jewel to be set
In a true Heart, the noblest Coronet.
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