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ENDIMION.If thou, by the wise Poets Card, or Starre,Canst bring us where these alter'd Monarchs are;Shift all thy Sayles, to husband ev'ry Winde;'Till by a short, swift passage we may finde,Where Sidney's ever-blooming-Throne is spred;For now, since one renown'd as he is dead;(Goring, the still lamented, and belov'd!)He hath enlarg'd his Bow'r, and farre remov'dHis lesse heroique Neighbours, that gave placeTo him; the last of that soone number'd Race.
ARIGO.Whom he must needs delight to celebrate,Because himselfe, in manners, and in Fate,Was his undoubted Type: Goring, whose nameThough early up, will stay the last with Fame:
ENDIMION.Though Sidney was his Type, fulfill'd aboveWhat he foretaught, of Valour, Bounty, Love:Who dy'd like him, even there, where he mistookeThe People, and the Cause he undertooke:Betray'd by Pitty then, to their defence,Whose povertie was all their innocence:

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