Spenser's Faerie Queene, Vol. 2 (of 2)

by Edmund Spenser

Then shall it make more famous memory

Of thine Heroicke parts, such as they beene:

Till then vouchsafe thy noble countenaunce,

To these first labours needed furtheraunce[643].

To the right Honourable the Earle of Ormond and Ossory.

Receiue most noble Lord a simple taste

Of the wilde fruit, which saluage soyl hath bred,

Which being through long wars left almost waste,

With brutish barbarisme is ouerspredd: