385 And when your taste shall tell you this is true, 386 Then look you give your host his utmost due.
look you > (An intensive: "make sure you", etc.)
387 Ignoto
Ignoto > "Unknown" (not identifiable)
388 389 390 391 392 393 _To the Right honourable Sir _Christopher Hatton, 394 Lord high Chauncelor of England. &c. 395 396 THose prudent heads, that with theire counsels wise 397 Whylom the Pillours of th'earth did sustaine, 398 And taught ambitious Rome to tyrannise, 399 And in the neck of all the world to rayne, 400 Oft from those graue affaires were wont abstaine, 401 With the sweet Lady Muses for to play: 402 So Ennius the elder Africane, 403 So Maro oft did C'sars cares allay. 404 So you great Lord, that with your counsell sway 405 The burdeine of this kingdom mightily, 406 With like delightes sometimes may eke delay 407 The rugged brow of carefull Policy: 408 And to these ydle rymes lend litle space, 409 Which for their titles sake may find more grace. 410 389 390 391 DEDICATORY SONNETS 392 393 _To the Right Honourable Sir Christopher Hatton,
Right > Very
Sir Christopher Hatton > (1540-91; principal minister of Elizabeth's
government)
394 Lord High Chancellor of England, etc._ 395 396 Those prudent heads, that with their counsels wise 397 Whilom the pillars of the earth did sustain,
Whilom > Formerly
398 And taught ambitious Rome to tyrannize, 399 And in the neck of all the world to reign,
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