A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mistress Essex…

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Madame- / Here, where by all all saints invokèd are, / 'Twere too much schism to be singular, / And 'gainst a practice general to war.

Yet turning to saints, should my humility / To other saints than you directed be, / That were to make my schism, heresy.

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