English poem
To the most honourable and excellent Lord the Earle of Essex
agnificke Lord, whose vertues exellent Doe merit a most famous Poets witt, To be thy liuing praises instrument, Yet doe not sdeigne, to let thy name be writt In this base Poeme, for thee far vnfitt. 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 vouch safe thy noble countenaunce, To these first labours needed furtheraunce,
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