Classic Poem

Fast is your state and many comforts bring,
Reaching into the secrets of your King;
And at his Councell table have your place,
Nobly so doing, unto you such grace:
Choise are your honors, and your place indeed
Is very ancient if we Scripture reade:
Safe banke then drew you in, who safely be

Well banked in with high Authority.
In your Dread Soveraignes favour banked so,
Noe envies hurt that you can undergoe:
Draw safely banked , then you drew tight well,
Ensafed by your King, from envy fell
Banked by vertue; banked in so sure,
A foe by no meanes can your hurt procure:
Nay, many foes although they were in Armes,
Keeping your banke can never boast your harmes,
Ever you'l showring victors brave Alarmes.