TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR FR. WALSINGHAM, KNIGHT, PRINCIPALL SECRETARY TO HER MAJESTY AND OF HER HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNSELL THAT Mantuane poetes incompared spirit, Whose girland now is set in highest place, Had not Mecaenas, for his worthy merit, It first advaunst to great Augustus grace, Might long, perhaps, have lien in silence bace, Ne bene so much admir'd of later age. This lowly Muse, that learns like steps to trace, Flies for like aide unto your patronage; That are the great Mecenas of this age, As wel to al that civil artes professe, As those that are inspir'd with martial rage, And craves protection of her feeblenesse: Which if ye yield, perhaps ye may her rayse In bigger tunes to sound your living prayse. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NINETY-NINE IN THE SHADE by ROSSITER JOHNSON THE FOUNTAIN OF PITY by HENRY BATAILLE FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SLEEPER'S COUNTENANCE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES MR. STOTHARD TO MR. CROMEK by WILLIAM BLAKE ESTEEMING THE BIBLE by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR ALMA MATER by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |