DEDICATED To the illustrous Lampe of true VVorth, the noble, Ingenious, judicious, and vnderstanding Gentleman, Sir IAMES MVRAY Knight.
VNto the prospect of your Wise∣domes eyes, I Consecrate these Epithalamies. Not that I thinke them worthy of your view, But for in Loue my thoughts are bound to you: I doe confesse my selfe vnworthy farre To write, in such high canses as these are, Which, Homer, Virgil, nor the fluent Tully, In sitting tearmes could scarce expresse them fully: But since the Muses did their bounties show, And on me did poore Poësie bestow; I hold it best to play the thankefull man, To spend their guifts the best wayes that I can, And not like pedling Bastards of the Muses, That like to Lawyers, liue on Times abuses. Thus vnto you I giue it as it is, Desiring pardon where there's oughts amisse.Your Worships, Euer to be commanded in all integritie: IOHN TAYLOR.