Vnto the which her sweet voice she did frame

To sing the praises of Elizae’s name.

Which hauing done, shee thus did silence break;

“Would God,” quoth shee, “her prayses I could speak,

Who claimes a greater power her praise to sound,

Then Phœbus self, if greater could be found:

Yet will I triall make with all my might,

With her great fame the golden starres to smite:

Which while I sing, heark thou with heedful eare,

And in thy mind the same hereafter beare:”