Classic Poem

To the Right Honourable Nicholas Earle of the Ile of Thamet, and Lord Tufton of Tufton

New is your Cast , not new the vertues tho,
In honour Lofty you exalteth so:
Choyce graces you did long agoe affect,
High honours they did unto you select;
On you, which as a Cast , most sodainly,
Lighted upon your soule heroickly
Admiring it, sith without your desire,
So nimbly unto honour you aspire.

Thus though no garnester but as vertue betted,
Verily you a lofty new cast fitted,
Faire game you needs must have, who so faire gaine,
Thus so unlook't for, by one cast retaine,
Oh he that vertue hath to be his dice,
Needs must that man, without all question rise;
Ev'n your nu losty cast transcends twice sice.English