Each blessed Lady that in Virtue spends Your pretious time to beautifie your soules; Come wait on her whom winged Fame attends And in hir hand the Booke where she inroules Those high deserts that Maiestie commends: Let this faire Queene not unattended bee, When in my Glasse she daines her selfe to see
Amelia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, “To all virtuous Ladies in generall”, Lines 1-7














