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[illustration] portrait of Robert Devereux Earl of Essex
ROBERTUS ILLUSTRISSIMUS & EXCELLENTISSIMUS HAEROS COMES ESSEXIAE PROQ TUTAMINE CŌITIORM ANGLIAE NUPERRIME DUX SUPREMUS
I once resolu'd that nothing should be seen,
And so presum'd to interpose, a Screen.
Becaus I thought the Multitude with greed,
Would love to looke upon the Peece, not read.
But in the end, determind for to take,
Aside the Curtaine, for the Figur's sake.
That seeing first, this Haero's in the face,
They then might read, but in the second place,
Englands brave Gen'rall, in its just defence,
Yet but the Shaddows of his EXCELLENCE.