This lowly Muse, that learns like steps to trace,

Flies for like aide vnto your Patronage;

That are the great Mecenas of this age,

As wel to al that ciuil artes professe

As those that are inspird with Martial rage,

And craues protection of her feeblenesse:

Which if ye yield, perhaps ye may her rayse

In bigger tunes to sound your liuing prayse.

E. S.