{"id":2496,"date":"2019-05-04T14:45:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.150.46.75\/poemsandfancies\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2019-05-04T14:45:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T14:45:35","slug":"to-her-excellence-the-lady-marchioness-of-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=2496","title":{"rendered":"To Her Excellence The Lady Marchioness of Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madam,<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

You are not only the first English poet of your sex, but the first that ever wrote this way: therefore, whosoever<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> writes afterwards must own you for their pattern, from whence they take their sample, and a line by which they measure their conceits and fancies. For whatsoever is written afterwards will<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> be but a copy of your original, which can be no more honor to them than to laboring men that draw water from another man\u2019s spring for their own use; neither can there be anything writ that your Honor<\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> hath<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span> not employed your pen in, as there are<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span> poetical fictions, moral instructions, philosophical opinions, dialogues, discourses, poetical romances.<\/span>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span> But truly, Madam, this book is not the only occasion I have to admire you,<\/span>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span> for having been brought up from my childhood in your honorable family, and always in your Ladyship\u2019s<\/span>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span> company, seeing the course of your life, and honoring your Ladyship\u2019s<\/span>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span> disposition, I have admired nature more in your Ladyship<\/span>11<\/sup><\/a><\/span> than in any other works besides. First, in the course of your life you were always circumspect by nature, not by art; for naturally your Honor<\/span>12<\/sup><\/a><\/span> did hate to do anything that was mean and unworthy, or anything that your Honor<\/span>13<\/sup><\/a><\/span> might not own to all the world with confidence. And yet your Ladyship<\/span>14<\/sup><\/a><\/span> is naturally bashful, and apt to be out of countenance that your Ladyship<\/span>15<\/sup><\/a><\/span> could not oblige all the world. But truly, Madam, Fortune hath not so much in her power to give as your Honor<\/span>16<\/sup><\/a><\/span> hath to bestow, which apparently shineth in all places, especially where your Ladyship<\/span>17<\/sup><\/a><\/span> hath been, as France,<\/span>18<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Flanders, Holland, etc., to your everlasting honor and fame, which will manifest this relation to be the truth, as well as I, who am,<\/p>\n

Madam,
\nYour Honor\u2019s<\/span>19<\/sup><\/a><\/span> most humble and obedient servant,
\nE. Toppe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Madam, You are not only the first English poet of your sex, but the first that ever wrote this way: therefore, whosoever writes afterwards must own you for their pattern, from whence they take their sample, and a line by which they measure their conceits and fancies. For whatsoever is written afterwards will be but … Continue reading To Her Excellence The Lady Marchioness of Newcastle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prefatory-material-section"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}