Classic Poem

Rare Peer we pry you, who your vertues see,
O pry no better Peer , we say then thee.
Better Peer none can be, true worth affecting,
Ever found out then you, vertue selecting,
Rightly declaring you a Noble Peer ,
Treasuring vertues, shining in you cleare,
Ever a lasting treasure so retaining:

Peerles you will be, by so Peerles gaining,
Eternising your name and memory,
Record remuning to posterity.
Peerles is vertue, and doth make a Peer ,
In whom resplendant graces shine most cleare;
Your self an Image, rather the self-same,
Not raised but by vertue to your frame;
That all the world, seeing your vertues rais'd,
Entend to pry no better Peer to praise.