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The ffifth Earle eldest sone & heire
to the fourth Earle right gratious & good
Hath married a vertuous Lady Katherin Spencer
mirror of humility, descended of the Noble Somersets bloud
To Kinge Henery the Seauenth annexed by consanguinity
Here I would ad more as it becometh mee
Yet my pen should bee pure from all partiallity

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but hee at whose commandement this simple worke I translate
loveth bettr short sentence then a matter to delate.