Classic Poem

With happines may you for ever passe
Intire the minuts of your honours glasse:
Letting the world see, that full wel you came ,
Lively to live, upon the Roule of Fame.
In craggic uneven paths you did not strive
Attaining honour, in it to survive;
Making unhonourable honours seat:

Care to be good you took, not to be great:
Advanc't to be to honour for desert,
Vertu affecting, like a noble heart;
Every way thus your heart, in so good frame,
Needs must I say full wel to honour cause ,
Doubtles who so wel honor did attain,
I 'th end a sweet epiromy shall gain.
So holy living, heav'nly needs must dy ;
Heav'n truly living unto each mans eye,
Ever in your wel poyl'd nobility.