(In whom the Muses and the Graces striue,

VVhich shall possesse the chiefest part of thee:)

Oh let these simple lines accepted bee:

VVhich here I offer at thy sacred shrine:

Sacred, because sweet Beauty is diuine.

And though I cannot please each curious eare,

With sugred Noates of heauenly Harmonie:

Yet if my loue shall to thy selfe appeare,

No other Muse I will inuoke but thee:

And if thou wilt my faire Thalia be,