As may both sound to like a perfect English eare,

And eke direct thy dreadfull pen which way to walke:

Lest thou on this shouldst long diuine, or muse, or calke,

I will the tell: but take in hand thy pen,

First set thy selfe to write my wordes, and then

A mirrour make yet more for Magistrates agen.]

3.

If euer erst the fame of auncient Romayne facts,

Haue come to pearce thine eares before this present time,

I thinke amongst the rest, likewise my noble actes