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SIr, I present you here with the off∣spring of a countrey Muse, and in a plain dresse sutable. It is more then two years since the birth of this Poem, which I bred up for no other ayre but my Chamber window, had not the strivings of some Friends wrested my will out of my hands: It now venters abroad to give you a visit in
your privacy; it is not waggish, but serious. Be pleased to lodge it in a warm room, with a Skreen from the cold blasts of the Sonnes of Censure. The best argument I can plead for a kind reception, is that it comes from
Sir Your faithfull Servant T. W.