Most worthy renomed prices/& lady souerayne
Pepyn and Budde/naturally takyng productyon
Of the rubifyde rose/and granate of Spayne
your noble fame/gyueth vs playne enstruction
your teder youthe to magnify/syth yt no enfluction
Bodily ne gostly/can you resolue doutlesse
To vayne pastyme/ne slouthfull ydelnesse.
Who hath sene a thyng so tender of age?
Garnysshed with maners/vertue and connyng
Lyke vnto your grace/comen of so hye lynage
Certes I knowe playne/no cronycle ne writyng
Resyteth one in youthe/attayning suche lernynge
Wherfore laude be to god/for his diuyne influence
And praysinge be to you/for your dayly dilygence.
The comon vulgar gothe/as we haue relacion
That in lernyng and doctryne/ye are equipolent
With Cato the etyke/scolers confort & consolacyon
And your tonge polysshed/lyke Tully the prudent
And also your vttrauce propt/as Uergyll thexellet
So that nothing you lacke/that nature may graut
To decorate your noble person/so stable & constaunt
These fructuous reportes/of your perfite intelligece
Impelled me gracyous lady/after my symplenesse
To dedicate this worke/vnto your magnifycence
Of no blynde elacion/but yt your worthy highnesse
Affecteth alway your mynde/and study to redresse
Hystoris to rede/autentycall and trewe
Grace to augment/and ydelnesse to subdewe.
Wherfore gracious lady/sythe ye are so prone
By naturall instyncte/and humble humylite
Thus vertuously to be occupyed/no hour forgone
Of your mylde goodnesse/my dytties to ouerse
Wherin ye shall fynde/touched in breuyte
Hystoris autentycall/of the testament olde
And some presydetes of ye new/necessary to beholde
And though I lacke dropes/of ye lycour laureate
Whiche sprang of Chaucer/ye foutayne of oratours
To adorne my style/and my mater to consecrate
yet gracious princes/to repell the sharpe shours
Of synistrall reportes/among yuell detractours
Sotyme at leysar/your other charges layde asyde
Where ye faute fynde/correcte or it be spyde.
Thus doyng/your grace shal me straitly bynde
With hert and seruyce/to do what lyeth in me
your magnifycece to extoll/or els I were vnkynde
Accordyng to your merytes/to testify my fydelyte
Against you & your paretes/whose welth & dignite
Christ conserue/and also dayly augment
wt honor & worshyp/cogrue/to your power exellet.