Classic Poem

Plac't on high seat of honours dignity,
High in true vertues grac't nobility,
Indeed your vertuous life to all afford,
Live evermore a most admired Lord,
In your so hope of happinesse, and Ioy,
Peace be to you, freed from all annoy.

With this sweet hope , your soule so ravished,
How forward in a vertuous path y'are led,
Advance still forward, till in hope possest;
Rapt up in hope , you are so heavenly blest.
Thus with your hope , as ravisht out of breath,
O you doe live, as one not fearing death.
No, while in hope rapt thus, for your reward,
Ever you still a vertuous life regard.