Classic Poem

Of Clituis.

E PIG . 221.

C LITUS (good heart) to his no little paines
And no lesse cost, now makes a Dictionary
Of most good tongues the Worlds wide mouth containes;
But aid inuokes of ignobility:
Who promise him they will; and so they doo:
That's promise faire, but when they see him after
Affraid they fly, and mute in flying too:
Which Clituis smelling, flies them too, with laughter:
 Thus flie they either, while the booke doth marke
 His makers fall to take him vp to warke. To the learned, ingenious and valorous Sir Edward Herbert of Mountgomery Knight of the honourable order of the Bathe.

E PIG . 222.

I haue bene fed by thee when plagues haue whipt
Mee to thee; when the Plague so scourg'd this Land
That no place free (almost) was left vnstript
Whereon a stripe distinctly well might stand
For this, and for thine amiable parts
(That make the whole a most accomplisht knight)
I am oblig'd to guerdon thy desarts
With these short lines, that reach not to thy right;
 But yet to stretch them further by a line,
 Thy worth doth reach to Honors highest signe.