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First Line: To you, right noble lord, whose carefull brest
Last Line: And wipe their faults out of your censure grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burleigh


TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD
BURLEIGH, LORD HIGH THREASURER
OF ENGLAND

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 comune 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.





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