French wryters yet my name and manhoode prayse.
6.
And erste as Burdet’s diuers warlike wights,
(In Warwickeshire theyr lands in Arrow ar)[1873]
Were, for good seruice done, made worthy knights,
Whose noble acts be yet recounted far:
Euen so my selfe, well framde to peace or war,
Of these the heyre by due discent I came,
Sir Nicholas Burdet knight, which had to name.
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