Classic Poem

Chiefe King in Christendome, the heroick band,
Here of the Garter leading by the hand,
Accept your handmaid prostrate once againe,
Rendring one drop more to your Ocean maine;
Let me confesse, but truth I shall disclose,
Ever chiefe King , supremest amongst those,
Seated in seate of highest Majesty:

Kingly excelling in your Soveraignty,
In your Religion chiefe , in Zeale likewise,
None seeing you, but you chiefe King soone vie
Great Monarch, chiefe , in your great Majesty,
Excelling chiefe in people that are free.

Oh let your fame enlarge it selfe through lands ,
Famously seated 'mongst the Kingly bands:

Englands Great Emperour O chiefe King be,
Nor let fame cease, enlarging Lands by thee;
Grow let your Majesties rare vertues, and
Lengthen forth still, enlarging such a band,
And then the Bards recording of your worth,
Neare cease to say Englands Chiefe King by birth,
Doth eagerly his vertuous life pursue,
Enlarging Fame, and Fame enlarging you.