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Her voice of silver raiseth to the skies the coming race of Barons high renown’d, whose prototypes were shown to Proteus’ eyes within the hollow Sphere’s diaph’anous round; Jove’s goodly present and the choicest prize giv’en him in vision. To the Realm profound the tale prophetick told he, and the Maid in Mem’ory’s depths the glorious hist’ory laid.