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IUE Spenser euer, in thy Fairy Queene:

Whose like (for deepe Conceit) was neuer scene:

Crownd mayst thou bee, vnto thy more renowne,

(As King of Poets) with a Lawrell Crowne.

And Daniell, praised for thy sweet-chast Verse:

Whose Fame is grav'd on Rosamonds blacke Herse.

Still mayst thou liue: and still be honored,

Eor that rare Worke, The White Rose and the Red.

And Drayton, whose wel-written Tragedies,

And sweete Epistles, soare thy fame to skies.

Thy learned Name, is sequall with the rest;

Whose stately Numbers are so well addrest.

And Shakespeare thou, whose hony-flowing Vaine,

(Pleasing the World) thy Praises doth obtaine.

Whose Venus and whose Lucrece (sweete, and chaste)

Thy Name in fames immortall Booke haue plac't.

Liue euer you, at least in Fame liue euer:

Well may the Bodye dye, but Fame dies neuer.

S it fell vpon a Day,

In the merrie Month of May,

Sitting in a pleasant shade,

Which a groue of Myrtles made,

Beastes did leape, and Birds did sing,

Trees did grow, and Plants did spring: