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