Classic Poem

Doubtlesse those who descend of noble blood,
Ever should cheerly be in doing good.

Let then the Muses great Duke greet your grace,
Onward exciting you with cheerely pace
Rightly aswell your grace in vertues path,
Religious walking, so go on, and laugh:
Ever be cheerely , that each one may see
Indeed like unto Zeno that you be:
None almost could this learned man excell,
Expresse true cheerlinesse though he did well.

Doe you the like Zene , and so dare you ever ;
Vertue, you know, will breed repentance never.
Keepe as you doe, and then each one shall see,
Exact you act a Duke of high degree.
Cheerelinesse with your vertues still maintaine,
Having like constant spirit you retaine,
Exactly like to Zeno , of this name
Read we how one a Learned man became;
Examining old Histories we find,
Vertue who did retaine well in his mind
Zeno another was a Prince, and he
Exceld in vertue too; both these you be.