TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Earle of Dorset.
As th'
awefull Child, that long hath truanted,
Dares not return vnto the Schoole, alone;
For Shame and Feare to be there discipled
With many Stripes for many Faults in One:
So fares (my Lord) My long Omission
Of th'humble Thanks I ought haue tendered
For kinde Endeuors You bestowd vpon
My Right, my Wrong to haue recouered.
And as (in fine) He brings his Mother forth
To beg Forgiueness, or his Fault to scuse:
So bring I heere My deer Du
Bartas Worth,
To mediate for My too-faultie Muse;
Whom daign to pardon: and in gentle Part
Accept This last of His, not least in Art.
Your Lordships most Obliged, Iosvah Sylvester.
