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Mary Sidney Quotes

1561–1621

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (née Sidney, 27 October 1561 – 25 September 1621) was among the first Englishwomen to gain notice for her poetry and her literary patronage. Her brother was the poet and courtier Philip Sidney.

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If ever hapless woman had a cause
To breathe her plaints into the open air,
And never suffer inward grief to pause,
Or seek her sorrow-shaken soul’s repair:
Then I, for I have lost my only brother,
Whose like this age can scarcely yield another.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mary Sidney (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.