Classic Poem

To the truly noble knight, Sr Allen Percy

Wert thou where euer humane creatures were
Though sauages of most inhumane kinde;
Yet (noble knight) as thou thyself dost heare,
Thou wouldst among them loue and fauour finde;
So faire thy body but more faire thy minde
Appeares t'externall and internall sence,
That they the barbaroust heartes would strongly binde
T'adore thee as some super-excellence:
So on (deere knight) with thy so happy race,
While heau'n and earth do thee (in loue) embrace.