Theas verses written heer,
To honour vertue as I ought,
And make his fame apeer,
That whan the garland gay
Of lawrel leaues but laet:
Small is my pain, great is his prayes,
That thus sutch honour gaet.
Finis quod Churchyarde.”
[146] slouth] Old ed. “sloulth.”
[147] fraes] i. e. phrase.—In the Muses Library, 1737, p. 138, this word is altered to “bayes.”