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.”