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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'd
His lesse heroique Neighbours, that gave place
To 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 name
Though early up, will stay the last with Fame:

ENDIMION.
Though Sidney was his Type, fulfill'd above
What he foretaught, of Valour, Bounty, Love:
Who dy'd like him, even there, where he mistooke
The People, and the Cause he undertooke:
Betray'd by Pitty then, to their defence,
Whose povertie was all their innocence:

And