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First Line: Who ever gave more honourable prize
Last Line: Love him that hath eternized your name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Norris, Sir John (1547-1597)


TO THE RIGHT NOBLE LORD AND MOST
VALIAUNT CAPTAINE, SIR JOHN
NORRIS, KNIGHT, LORD PRESIDENT
OF MOUNSTER

WHO ever gave more honourable prize
To the sweet Muse then did the martiall crew,
That their brave deeds she might immortalize
In her shril tromp, and sound their praises dew?
Who then ought more to favour her then you,
Moste noble Lord, the honor of this age,
And precedent of all that armes ensue?
Whose warlike prowesse and manly courage,
Tempred with reason and advizement sage,
Hath fild sad Belgicke with victorious spoile,
In Fraunce and Ireland left a famous gage,
And lately shakt the Lusitanian soile.
Sith, then, each where thou hast dispredd thy fame,
Love him that hath eternized your name.






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