Whatever in Philoclea the fair <br />Or the discreet Pamela figur'd are, <br />Change but the name the virtues are your owne, <br />And for a fiction there a truth is knowne: <br />If any service here perform'd you see, <br />If duty and affection paynted bee <br />Within these leaves: may you be pleas'd to know <br />They only shadow what I truly owe <br />To your desart: thus I a glasse have sent <br />Which both myself and you doth represent.<br /><br />William Strode<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-superscription-on-sir-philip-sidney-s-arcadia/
