A Poetical Rapsody Containing, Diuerse Sonnets, Odes, Elegies, Madrigalls, and other Poesies, both in Rime, and Measured Verse. Neuer yet published |
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To the most Noble, Honorable, and Worthy Lord, William Earle of Pembroke, Lord Herbert of Caerdiffe, Marmion, and Saint Quintine. |
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To the most Noble, Honorable, and Worthy Lord, William Earle of Pembroke, Lord Herbert of Caerdiffe, Marmion, and Saint Quintine.
Great Earle, whose high and noble minde, is higherAnd nobler, then thy noble high Degree:
Whose outward shape, though it most louely bee,
Doth in faire Robes a fairer Soule attier:
Who Rich in fading Wealth, in endlesse Treasure
Of Vertue, Valour, Learning, richer art:
Whose present greatnes, men esteeme but part
Of what by line of future Hope they measure.
Thou Worthy Sonne, vnto a peerelesse MOTHER,
Thou Nephew to great SIDNEY of renowne,
Thou that deseru'st thy CORONET to crowne
With Lawrell Crowne, a Crowne excelling t'other;
I consecrate these Rimes to thy great NAME,
Which if thou like, they seeke no other fame.
The deuoted Admirer of your Lordships noble virtues, Fra: Davison humbly dedicates, his owne, his Brothers, and Anomos Poems, both in his owne, and their names.
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