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 One name there is, which name aboue all other

I most esteeme, as time and place shall proue:

The one is Vesta, th' other Cupids mother.

The first my Goddesse is, the last my loue;

Subiect to Both I am: to that by birth;

To this for beautie; fairest on the earth.

Thus, hoping you will beare with my rude conceit of Cynthia, (if for no other cause, yet, for that it is the first imitation of the verse of that excellent Poet Maister Spencer, in his Fayrie Queene), I leaue you to the reading of that, which I so much desire may breed your Delight.

Richard Barnefeild.