And braue exploits which great Heroes wonne,
In loue were either ended or begunne:
Witnesse the father of Philosophie,
Which to his Critias, shaded oft from sunne,
Of loue full manie lessons did apply,
The which these Stoicke censours cannot well deny.
To such therefore I do not sing at all, iv
But to that sacred Saint my soueraigne Queene,
In whose chast[3] breast all bountie naturall,
And treasures of true loue enlocked beene,