Classic Poem

Knight:

And to the no lesse louely than vertuous Lady his Wife

Sith I am Lecturing my noblest Schollers,
(You being two) this Lecture deigne to reade;
For thogh it treats of nought but death and dollers,
Yet it with pleasure may your passion feede:
For plagues to see (vnplagu'd) doth Nature please,
Although good nature (gladly) grieues thereat;
As we are well-ill pleas'd to see at Seas
The wofull'st wracke, while we are safe from that.
In health to tell what sickenesse we haue past,
Makes vs more sound; for, Gladnes health defends:
O then your eies on this Plagues-Picture cast
To glad and grieue you for glad-grieuous ends.
But my sole End by this poore Meane to yee,
Is but to tie your Eares and Hearts to mee.