In the opening of a work dedicated to this kind of person, the title shepherdess laments, “Unseen, unknown, I here alone complain” because she does not know her real parents. In that work dedicated to one of these people, a maiden fishing at a stream sings, “Love peruse me, seek and find.” One of these people is fictionalized as the Queen of Naples in a work dedicated to the author’s friend Susan de Vere, who was one of these people. The earliest English prose romance by (*) a woman was dedicated to a person with this title and includes the sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. That work by Lady Mary Wroth, Urania, was inspired by a pastoral romance about a region ruled by Basilius, which was dedicated to a person with this title. For 10 points, name this noble rank held by Mary Herbert, the dedicatee of her brother Philip Sidney’s Arcadia. ■END■
ANSWER: countess [accept The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia or The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania; Countess of Pembroke or Countess of Montgomery; prompt on sister or lady or noblewoman by asking “what was her title?”; reject “count”]
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