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To the High And Noble Prince George, Duke, Marquis, And Earl of Buckingham

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Never my book’s perfection did appear
Till I had got the name of Villars here:
Now ’tis so full that when therein I look
I see a cloud of glory fills my book.
Here stand it still to dignify our Muse,
Your sober handmaid, who doth wisely choose
Your name to be a laureate wreath to her
Who doth both love and fear you, honoured sir.

Published in Hesperides
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