To Chalcis there I made by Sea my passe;

And to the Games of great Amphidamas;

Where many a fore-studied Exercise

Was instituted with excitefull prise

For great-and-good, and able-minded Men;

And where I wonne, at the Pierian Pen,

A three-ear’d Tripod, which I offer’d on

The Altars of the Maids of Helicon.

Where first their loues initiated me

In skill of their unworldly Harmony.