TO THE RIGHT HO NORABLE AND MOST VER tuous Ladies, the Ladie Margaret Countesse Counteffe of Warwicke. HAuing in the greener times of my youth, compofed thefe former two Hymnes in the praife of Loue and beautie, and finding that the fame too much pleafed thofe of like age & difpofitio, which being too vehemently caried with that kind of affection, do rather fucke out 10 poyfon to their strong paffion, then hony to their honeft delight, I was moued by the one of you two most excellent Ladies, to call in the fame. But being vnable fo to doe, by reafon that many copies thereof were formerly Scattered abroad, I refolued at least to amend, and by way of retractation to reforme them, making in ftead of those two Hymnes of earthly or naturall loue and beautie, two others of heauenly and celeftiall. The which I doe dedicate ioyntly unto you two honorable fifters, as to the most excellent and rare ornaments of all true loue and beautie, 20 both in the one and the other kinde, humbly befeeching you to vouchsafe the patronage of them, and to accept this my humble feruice, in lieu of the great graces and honourable fauours which ye dayly fhew vnto me, vnti |