To the Right Honourable Philip, Earle of Chesterfield

Placed within your breast I doe espie,
High ensignes of most true Nobility,
In you I see that vertues faire increase,
Lively acquires unto your soule great Peace;
In you nobilliti's most noble Rays,
Place still most lively your immortall praise.

So then most happily you posten on,
That you may be a most selected stone,
And vertue happily hath posten you,
Now to receive reward that is but due
Howerly to your deserts, which vertuously,
On high affecting, ought to be on high.
Posten you have then happily in deed,
Invited thereto by faire vertues leede.
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