Abstract

Renaissance ^ the sacred literary psalm or theorists hymn of customarily praise (the note first an forme analogy of Poesie between and ^ th sacred ps l or hym of pra se (the first for e of Poes and the highest & the stateliest) and poetic celebrations of earthly rulers (a second degree of laude: shewing their high estates, their Princely genealogies and pedegrees, mariages, aliances, and such noble exploites, as they have done in th'afiaires of peace & of warre to the benefit of their people and countries) * This analogy of sacred and secular encomia is strengthened when the incarnation of temporal authority and power happens to be a virgin queen who is head of both state and church, and whose personal mythology is contrived to be a national and Protestant substitute for a cult of the Blessed Virgin.2 An imperial mythology, infused with the conventions of Petrarchism and enhanced by metaphysical sanctions

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