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MISCELLANEOVS SONNETS.
To the right worshipfull
M. Gabnell Haruey,
HAruey, the happy aboue happiest men,
I read, that, sitting like a looker-on
Of this worldes stage, doest note, with critique
pen,
The sharpe dislikes of each condition,
And, as one carelesse of suspition,
Ne fawnest for the fauour of the great,
Ne fearest foolish reprehension
Of faulty men, which daunger to thee threat
But freely doest of what thee list entreat,
I
my singular good Frend,
Doctor of the Lawes.
II
Like a great lord of peerelesse liberty;
Lifting the good up to high Honours seat,
And the euiU damning euermore to dy;
For Life, and Death, is in thy doomefull
writing'
So thy renowme hues euer by endighting
Dublin, this xvnj of July, 1586
Prefixed to Nenmo, or A Treatise of
Nobility, &c.
Your deuoted frend during life,
EDMVND SPENCER.
WHo so wil seeke by right deserts t'attame, And, when thou doost with equail insight see
Vnto the type of true Nobility, The ods twixt both, of both them deem anght,
And not by painted shewes and titles vame, And chuse the better of them both to thee
Denued farre from famous Auncestrie But thanks to him that it deserues, benight;
Behold them both m their right visnomy To Nenna first, that first this worke created,
Here truly pourtrayt, as they ought to be, And next to Jones, that truely it translated,
And stnumg both for termes of dignitie,
To be aduanced highest in degree
ED. SPENSER.
Ill
Upon the Histone of George Castnot, alias Scanderbeg,
king of the Epirots, translated into English.
WHerefore doth vame antiquitie so vaunt
Her ancient monuments of mightiepeeres,
And old Heroes, which their world did daunt
With their great deedes, and fild their childrens
eares ?
Who, rapt with wonder of their famous praise,
Admire their statues, their Colossoes great,
Their rich tnumphall Arcks which they did
raise,
Their huge Pyramids, which do heauen threat
Lo one, whom later age hath brought to light,
Matchable to the greatest of those great,
Great both by name, and great m power and
might,
And meriting a meere triumphant seaffe
The scourge of Turkes, and plague of infidels,
Thy acts, 0 Scanderbeg, this volume tels
ED