Classic Poem

To my beloned Walter Leigh, Esquire, serieant at armes attending the Lord Chancellor of England

Thine out and in-side are so good and great;
That worthy art thou that great mase to beare
Before that great good Lord, that lawes doth mete
With conscience, sith there is so little here
When thou before him bear'st that mighty mase
Thou go'st before the grau'st and goodliest lord
That euer yet supplide that honord place;
With whose faire stature thou dost so accord
That when thou go'st before and he behinde,
You come behinde none in your diuers kinde.