As yet in bokes we may them wrytten fynde.

O ye estates surmountynge in noblenesse,

Remember well the noble paynyms all,

How by theyr labour they wanne the hyenesse

Of worthy fame to raygne memoryall,

And them applyed ever, in specyall,

Thynges to practyse whiche should profyte be

To the comyn welthe and their heyres in fee.

CAP. II.
OF THE SWETE REPORTE OF FAME OF THE FAYRE LADY LA BELL PUCELL IN THE TOURE OF MUSYCKE.

And after thys, Fame gan to expresse