To the Right Honourable Robert, Earle of Essex, Viscount Hereford, and Bourchier, Lord Ferrers of Chartly, Bourchier, and LEvaine
Right Earle of Effex , warlike Devereux sonne,
O you a Captaine rightly are become;
Blest by the Muses, who will have it so,
Enjoyning that you for a Leader go;
Rais'd unto honour, and your Fathers merit;
That you Son-like, his vertues may inherit.
Dux bee you still, and so continue ever,
Entending in your valour to periever.
Valorous worth descend upon your head.
Ev'n from your Predecessors, who though dead,
Rightly alive may in their sonne be said;
Envie by vertue making so afraid;
Vertues great Champion be, or y'are reverting ,
Xanthus -like, from your Cadmus mount departing.
O you a Captaine rightly are become;
Blest by the Muses, who will have it so,
Enjoyning that you for a Leader go;
Rais'd unto honour, and your Fathers merit;
That you Son-like, his vertues may inherit.
Dux bee you still, and so continue ever,
Entending in your valour to periever.
Valorous worth descend upon your head.
Ev'n from your Predecessors, who though dead,
Rightly alive may in their sonne be said;
Envie by vertue making so afraid;
Vertues great Champion be, or y'are reverting ,
Xanthus -like, from your Cadmus mount departing.
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