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On His Lady Denys

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On His Lady Denys by William Strode

 Denys hath merited no slender praise,
In that She well supplied the Formers daies.
Conceive how Good she was, whose very worst
Unto her Knight was This, that She dyed First.

Form: Heroic Couplet

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