Foster a plant, the princess of all plants,
Which Portugall, after peril and paines,
To Europe brought, as it most justly vaunts;
This plant at home the people and priests assure,
Of his goodwill, whom they as God adore;
Both here and there it worketh wonderous cure,
And hath much heavenlie vertue hid in store.
A stranger plant shipwrecked on our coast,
Is come to help this colde phlegmatic soyle,
Yet cannot live for calumnie and boast,