Classic Poem

G. Chapman to the Author.

Accept thrice Noble Nennio at his hand
That cannot bid himselfe welcome at home,
A thrice due welcome to our natiue strand,
Italian, French , and English now become.
Thrice Noble, not in that vsde Epethite,
But Noble first, to know whence Noblesse sprung,
Then in thy labour bringing it to light,
Thirdly, in being adorned with our tung.
And since so (like it selfe) thy Land affoords
The right of Noblesse to all noble parts,
I wish our friend, giuing thee English words,
With much desert of Loue in English harts,
As he hath made one strange an Englishman,
May make our mindes in this, Italian .
Ex tenebris.