The Works of William Fowler Secretary to Queen Anne, Wife of James VI. Edited with introduction, appendix, notes and glossary by Henry W. Meikle |
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X. TO THE R. HONOBL SIR IOHNE COLVILL.
gif valeur wun through thousand shott and speirsavail for to advance a noble name,
or gif a hart devoyd of threatning feares
proceur to him an vndecaying fame,
if geven wonds and als receavd but bla[m]e
In battells bould hes rights [to] be extold,
gif men by birth and blood may honour clame,
or through the same deserved fame vnfould,
then, sone of Mars, thow weill may be Inrould
with golden pen in glorious books of praise,
whose hardy hart, whose courage stout and bould,
no age sal end, nor yet no futur dayss,
bot still sal swim and fleit in endles glore
from twede to tems from garron vnto Loire.
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