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.
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,