The virgin PARTHENIA (whilst yet I may I offer vp to your virgin Highnesses. To you (Gracious Lady euen from the byrth she was entended: and nowe I trust shalbe more wellcome hauing learnd to tune and twine togeith these next neighbour letters E and F. the vowell that makes so sweet a Consonāt. Her notes so linkt and wedded togeither seeme liuely Hierogliphicks of the harmony of mariage. the high and holy State wherinto you shortly must be incorporat. This smale worke (yet first in this kind) was only ment for this lesser world: howbeit under your shadowes (in yo^r sunneshine I should say rather; y^t is, yo^r sweete and glorious Consorte it may sound & rellish in the eares of the greater. For Musick like that miraculous tongue of the Apostles hauing but one and y^e same Caracter is alike knowne to all the sundry nations of y^e world. And what wonder sine Harmony is the Soule thereof multipliciously varied of fowre bare notes as y^e Body is of the fowre Elements. These lessons were composed by three famous Masters in the faculties. whereof one had y^e hono^r to be yo^r teacher most Illustrious lady; and had he not had it before thereby deserued the stile of a Doctor. If to theire great^r grace, yo^r Grace will vouchsafe to lend yo^r white hands they will arriue w^th more pleasure at y^e princely eares of yo^r GREATE FREDERIKE. Our lord Iesus who hath honored mariage w^th his deere praesence and first miracle, extraordinarily dōne at y^e instance of his mayden mother, aeternally blesse yo^u maydes and maryed.