To you, right noble Lord, whose carefull brest + 

To menage of most grave affaires is bent; + 

And on whose mightie shoulders most doth rest + 

The burdein of this kingdomes governement, + 

As the wide compasse of the firmament + 

On Atlas mighty shoulders is upstayd, + 

Unfitly I these ydle rimes present, + 

The labor of lost time, and wit unstayd: + 

Yet if their deeper sence be inly wayd, + 

And the dim vele, with which from commune vew + 

Their fairer parts are hid, aside be layd, + 

Perhaps not vaine they may appeare to you. + 

Such as they be, vouchsafe them to receave, + 

And wipe their faults out of your censure grave. + 