The fairest Maide that euer world admired:

Whose constant minde, with heauenly gifts possest

Makes her rare selfe of all the world desired.

In whose chaste thoughts no vanitie doth enter;

So pure a minde Endymions Love hath lent her.

Queene of my thoughts, but subiect of my verse,

(Divine Eliza) pardon my defect:

Whose artlesse pen so rudely doth reherse

Thy beauties worth; (for want of due respect)

Oh pardon thou the follies of my youth;