 | "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable
Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" |  |
Charis the fourth
To L. I. S.
Charis the fourth, Pieris the tenth, the second Cypris, Iane,One to assemblies thre adioynd: whom Phebus fere, Diane,
Among the Nymphs Oreades, might wel vouchsafe to place:
But you as great a goddesse serue, the quenes most noble grace:
Allhayle, and while, like Terpsichor, much melody you make:
Which if the field, as doth the court, enioyd, the trees wold shake:
While latine you, and french frequent: while English tales you tel:
Italian whiles, and Spanish you do hear, and know full well:
Amid such peares, and solemne sightes, in case conuenient tyme
You can (good Lady) spare, to read a rurall poets ryme:
Take here his simple sawes, in briefe: wherin no need to moue
Your Ladishyp, but thus lo speakes thabundance of his loue.
The worthy feates that now so much set forth your noble name,
So haue in vre, they still encreast, may more encrease your fame.
For though diuine your doings be, yet thews w[ith] yeres may grow:
And if you stay, streight now adayes fresh wits will ouergo.
Wherfore the glory got maintayne, maintayne the honour great.
So shal the world my doom approue, and set you in that seat,
Where Graces, Muses, and Ioues ymp, the ioyful Venus, raigne:
So shall the bacheler blessed bee, can such a Nymph obtaine.
| "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable
Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" | |