To the right honourable the Lord of Hunsdon

Renowmed Lord, that for your worthinesse And noble deeds haue your deserued place, High in the fauour of that Emperesse. The worlds sole glory and her sexes grace, Here eke of right haue you a worthie place, Both for your nearnes to that Faerie Queene, And for your owne high merit in like cace, Of which, apparaunt proofe was to be seene, When that tumultuous rage and fearfull deene Of Northerne rebels ye did pacify, And their disloiall powre defaced clene, The record of enduring memory. Liue Lord for euer in this lasting verse, That all posteritie thy honor may reherse. E. S.