To thee therefore right noble Lord I send

This present of my paines, it to defend.

To the right honourable the Earle of Cumberland.

Redoubted Lord, in whose corageous mind

The flowre of cheualry now bloosming faire,

Doth promise fruite worthy the noble kind,

Which of their praises haue left you the haire;

To you this humble present I prepare,

For loue of vertue and of Martiall praise,