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

by Edmund Spenser

Vouchsafe in worth this small guift to receaue,

Which in your noble hands for pledge I leaue,

Of all the rest, that I am tyde t’account:

Rude rymes, the which a rustick Muse did weaue

In sauadge soyle, far from Parnasso mount,

And roughly wrought in an vnlearned Loome:

The which vouchsafe dear Lord your fauorable doome.

To the right honourable the Lord of Buckhurst, one of her Maiesties priuie Counsell.

In vain I thinke right honourable Lord,