TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND TRVELY VER I VOVS LADY, and Noble Patronesse of good endeauours, MARY, Countesse of BVCKINGHAM.
Right Honourable Madame:
AS the Graces, the Vertues, the Senses, and the Muses, are emblem'd, or alluded to your Noble sex, and as all these haue ample residence in your worthy disposition: To whom then but to your selfe, being a Lady in goodnesse compleat, should I commit the patronage of the memory of the great Lady of La∣dies, Mother to the High and Mighty Lord of Lords? And though I (a Taylor) haue not apparell'd her in such garments of elocution and ornated stile, as befits the glory and eminen∣cy of the least part of her Excellency, yet I beseech your Honor to accepther for your owne worth, and her Sonnes worthinesse, which Son of hers, by his owne merits, and the powerfull mercy of his Father, I heartily implore to giue your Honour a participation of his gracious Mothers eternall felicity.
Your Honours in all humble seruice to be commanded, IOHN TAYLOR.