Fair Virtue's gem, se in most royal gold,
The worthiest owner of the fairest mansion,
Rich prize, for which Nature and Fortune hold
With Muses and Graces great contention:
All which by agreement this partition make,
None of themselves worthy of all discerning:
Nature your beauty, Graces your virtues take;
Fortune shares your honour, Muses your learning.
Map of perfection, who deserve to be,
And are the worthiest mark the world can yield
For all great Christian princes' love; they see
Such Virtue's wheat growing in Beauty's field:
Long may you live, a holy and happy life,
A royal maid first, then a royal wife.
The worthiest owner of the fairest mansion,
Rich prize, for which Nature and Fortune hold
With Muses and Graces great contention:
All which by agreement this partition make,
None of themselves worthy of all discerning:
Nature your beauty, Graces your virtues take;
Fortune shares your honour, Muses your learning.
Map of perfection, who deserve to be,
And are the worthiest mark the world can yield
For all great Christian princes' love; they see
Such Virtue's wheat growing in Beauty's field:
Long may you live, a holy and happy life,
A royal maid first, then a royal wife.