Classic Poem

Shadowes before the shining sunne do vanish,
The iron forcing Adamant doth resigne
His vertues where the Diamond doth shine;
Pure holines doth all enchantment banish,
And cullors of false Principallity
Do fade in presence of true majesty.

Sheapheards sometymes in Lyons skins were cloathde,
But when the Royall Lyon did appeare,
What wonder though the sylly swaynes for feare
Theyr bravery and princely pale have loathed?
The Lyons skinn that graict our vanity
Falls down in presence of your Majesty.