Be lacke of children, to supply your place,
Lo[473] how good fortune doth to you present
This litle babe, of sweete and louely face,
And spotlesse spirit, in which ye may enchace
What euer formes ye list thereto apply,
Being now soft and fit them to embrace;
Whether ye list him traine in cheualry,
Or noursle vp in lore of learn’d Philosophy.
And certes it hath oftentimes bene seene, xxxvi
That of the like, whose linage was vnknowne,