Dead, and yet could a Goddess thus beguile,
What had he done if he had liv'd this while?
These Commendations given him by so learned a Prince, made Mr. Alexander Nevil thus to write;
Harps others Praise, a Scepter his doth sing,
Of Crowned Poet, and of Laureat King.
Divine Du Bartus, speaking of the most Learned of the English Nation, reckoneth him as one of the chief, in these words;
And (world mourn'd) Sidney, warbling to the Thames,
His Swan-like Tunes, so courts her coy proud Streams,
That (all with child with Fame) his Fame they bear
To Thetis Lap, and Thetis every where.