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Sir Philip Sydneys Ourbania

That is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, Containing all Philosophie. Written by N. B. [i.e. Nathaniel Baxter]

Baxter, Nathaniel

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TO MY EUER-HONORED Lady and Mistris Arcadian Cynthia, Maria Pembrokiana.

To the right Honorable and vertuous Ladies the La. Katherine Countesse of Huntington, the Ladie Mary Countesse of Pembrooke: the Ladie Susan Countesse of Mongomria: and the Lady Barbara Viscountes Lisle, wife to the noble Knight Sir Robert Sidney Viscount Lisle.

An Epistle.

To the Right Noble, and Honorable Lady Susan Vera Mongomriana.

To the Honourable La. Kalandra, the noble D. Hastings.

To the vertuous Ladie. M. Agape Wrotha.

To the right vertuous young La: K. Musophile Mansella.

To the Right Worshipfull, and vertuous Lady, the Lady Anne Daniell wife to the Right worshipfull Sir William Daniell Knight one of his Majesties Iustices of the Common-Pleas.

Sir Philip Sidney's Ouránia.

To the right Worshipfull Sir John Smith of Olde-Hunger Knight, a worthie fauourer of learning.

To my Worshipfull friend: Iohn Stone Esquire, Counsellor at the Law, and Secondarie of the Counter in VVoodstreet London.

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To the Right Worshipfull, and vertuous Lady, the Lady Anne Daniell wife to the Right worshipfull Sir William Daniell Knight one of his Majesties Iustices of the Common-Pleas.

Right vertuous Lady, health and happinesse,
Mourning Endymion in Obscuritie
Doth wish to thee, though hee be in distresse,
Entrapped by malicious Trechery,
Of such as glorie in his Miserie.
He found thy Knight a Patrone in his griefe,
Commiserating his extremitie,
Vn-monyed Preachers seldome finde reliefe,
Of men excelling in that facultie.
There lyeth some secret hidden misterie,
That wit of mortall man cannot vnfolde,
Why blessed cælestiall Diuinitie,
And learned men, are Measur'd by their golde,
Happily Ourania shall vntwine this string,
Good Ladie reade her booke, and heare her sing.

N.B.