“ This worthy man / nobly hath done his payne

I meane hym / that these sayde bokes[3] dyd deuyse.

He sheweth to husbandes / in right fruteful wyse

The manyfolde good thynges / in brefe sentence

Whiche he hath well proued / by long experyence.

¶ And this[4] I leaue hym / in his good wyll and mynde

That he beareth / vnto the publyke weale.

Wolde god noblemen / coude in their hertes fynde

After such forme / for the cōmons helth to deale;

It is a true token / of hyghe loue and zeale