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1556–1588

Anne de Vere, Countess of Oxford (née Cecil; 5 December 1556 – 5 June 1588) was the daughter of the statesman William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I of England, and the translator Mildred Cooke. In 1571 she became the first wife of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

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Had with mooming the gods left their willes undon,
They had not so soone herited such a soule:
Or if the mouth Tyme did not glotten up all,
Nor I, nor the world, were depriv'd of my sonne.
Whose brest Venus, with a face dolefull and milde,
Dooth wash with golden teares, inveying the skies;
And when the water of the goddesses eyes
Makes almost alive the marble of my childe;
One byds her leave styll her dollor so extreme,
Telling her — it is not her young sonne Papheme!
To which she makes aunswer with a voice inflamed
(Feeling therewith her venime to be more bitter)
"As I was of Cupid, even so of it, mother;
And a woman's last chylde is the most beloved."

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