The Example of Vertu / The Example of Virtue

by Stephen Hawes

And at euery houre to her attendaunt

And ryotous company do thou not haunt

For that wyll payre and yll thy name

Wherfore of vertuous myrth let be thy game

[Capitulum.vi.]

DIscrecyon ferther forth me lede

Vnto the solempne and royall mancyon

Of dame nature in humayne stede