Receive, most Noble Lord, in gentle gree, + 

The unripe fruit of an unready wit; + 

Which by thy countenaunce doth crave to bee + 

Defended from foule Envies poisnous bit. + 

Which so to doe may thee right well besit, + 

Sith th’antique glory of thine auncestry + 

Under a shady vele is therein writ, + 

And eke thine owne long living memory, + 

Succeeding them in true nobility: + 

And also for the love which thou doest beare + 

To th’ Heliconian ymps, and they to thee; + 

They unto thee, and thou to them, most deare. + 

Deare as thou art unto thy selfe, so love + 

That loves and honours thee, as doth behove. + 