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2 [Prefixed to Nennio, or A Treatise of Nobility, &c.]
Who so wil seeke by right deserts t'attaine,Vnto the type of true Nobility,
And not by painted shewes and titles vaine,
Deriued farre from famous Auncestrie,
Behold them both in their right visnomy
Here truly pourtray'd, as they ought to be,
And striuing both for termes of dignitie,
To be aduanced highest in degree.
And, when thou doost with equall insight see
The ods twixt both, of both then deem aright
And chuse the better of them both to thee:
But thanks to him that it deserues, behight:
To Nenna first, that first this worke created,
And next to Jones, that truely it translated.
Ed. Spenser.
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