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| [Introduction] | [424] |
| [Commendatory Poems] | [428] |
[To the right honourable, right worthy, and truly ennobled hero,
John, Lord Lovelace, Baron of Hurley, N.W. S.P.O.] | [428] |
| [To the Reader] | [429] |
| [To the right virtuous and equally beautiful,
Sra Inconstanza Bellarizza] | [431] |
| [The Author's Apology] | [432] |
| [The Author to his Book] | [433] |
| [To his loving friend the Author] | [435] |
| [To the Reader] | [436] |
| [To his loving kinsman the Author] | [436] |
| [Amico suo carissimo N. W. huius Poematis authori
Collegii Regnalis Canta. in artibus magistro] | [437] |
| [In Authorem, amicissimum suum, Encomiasticon] | [437] |
| [To his Friend, a Panegyric upon his lovers,
Albino and Bellama] | [438] |
| [THE PLEASING HISTORY OF ALBINO AND BELLAMA] | [439] |
| [To those worthy Heroes of our Age, whose noble
Breasts are wet and water'd with the dew of Helicon] | [539] |
| [Il Insonio Insonnadado] | [540] |
To the right honourable, right worthy, and truly ennobled hero,
John, Lord Lovelace, Baron of Hurley, N.W. S.P.O.
The law-enactors, whilst time fear'd the rod,
Feign'd in their laws the presence of a god,
Whose awful nod and wisdom grave should be
As hand and signet unto their decree;
And such commanding awe that sacred name
Struck in the vulgar breasts, it teen'd a flame
Of love and duty to their pious hests.
Thus Rhadamanthus in his laws invests