By your great selfe, to graue their names about

Th’Iberian pillars of Joue’s Hercules:

Most humblie craues your lordly lions aid

Gainst monster enuie, while she tels her storie

Of Britaine princes, and that royall maid,

In whose chaste hymne her Clio sings your glorie:

Which if (great lord) you grant, my muse shall frame

Mirrours more worthie your renowned name.

Your Honor’s euer most humblie
deuoted,
Richard Nicols.

TO THE READER.