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First Line: Magnificke lord, whose vertues excellent
Last Line: To these first labours needed furtheraunce.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Devereux, Robert. 2d Earl Of Essex


TO THE MOST HONOURABLE AND EXCELLENT
LORD THE EARLE OF ESSEX.
GREAT MAISTER OF THE HORSE
TO HER HIGHNESSE, AND
KNIGHT OF THE NOBLE
ORDER OF THE GARTER,
&C.

MAGNIFICKE Lord, whose vertues excellent
Doe merit a most famous poets witt,
To be thy living praises instrument,
Yet doe not sdeigne to let thy name be writt
In this base poeme, for thee far unfitt:
Nought is thy worth disparaged thereby.
But when my Muse, whose fethers, nothing flitt,
Doe yet but flagg, and lowly learne to fly,
With bolder wing shall dare alofte to sty
To the last praises of this Faery Queene,
Then shall it make more famous memory
Of thine heroicke parts, such as they beene.
Till then vouchsafe thy noble countenaunce,
To these first labours needed furtheraunce.





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