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Creator: Thomas Porter
Date: ca. 1614
Repository: Holkham Hall, Wells-next-the-Sea, UK
Call number and opening: MS 436, cent i. 57; dedication page, and pages 2 & 13
Will Shakespeare, pleasing Poet.
Your muse has so many charms; as many as the hares on Athos.
Your measures [come] from a rich vein of genius
