In Subject, Frame, in Methode, Phrase, and Stile,

May match the most unmatched in this Ile:

But this renownes thee most, t’have still possest,

A constant Heart, within a wandring Brest.

Robert Allen.

To his kind friend and Countreyman W. Lithgow.

Thy well adventur’d Pilgrimage I prayse,

Although perform’d with perrill and with paine,

Which thou hast pen’d, in more than vulgar phrase

So curiously, so sweetly, smooth, and plaine,