To the Countess of S. With the Holy Court
Madam,
Since every place you blesse, the name
This Book assumes may justlier claim,
(What more a Court then where you shine?
And where your soul, what more divine?)
You may perhaps doubt at first sight,
That it usurps upon your right;
And praising vertues that belong
To you in others, doth yours wrong;
No, 'tis your self you read, in all
Perfections earlier Ages call
Their own; all Glories they e're knew
Were but faint Prophecies of you.
You then have here sole Int'rest whom 'tis meant
As well to entertain, as represent.
Since every place you blesse, the name
This Book assumes may justlier claim,
(What more a Court then where you shine?
And where your soul, what more divine?)
You may perhaps doubt at first sight,
That it usurps upon your right;
And praising vertues that belong
To you in others, doth yours wrong;
No, 'tis your self you read, in all
Perfections earlier Ages call
Their own; all Glories they e're knew
Were but faint Prophecies of you.
You then have here sole Int'rest whom 'tis meant
As well to entertain, as represent.
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