Small shall I be if small my estate, + 

And great shall I grow if great it be. + 

What fortune soever for me may wait, + 

I will strive to adorn it worthily. + 

Should God grant easeful wealth unto me, + 

I would fain win fame too in oncoming days. + 

So Nestor and Lycian Sarpedon in lays + 

Ringing loud on the lips of men, have praise, + 

Whom we see as it were in temples enshrined + 

Uppiled by the master-builders of song; + 

For through glorious strains liveth chivalry long⁠— + 

But the path unto that fame few may find. + 