Classic Poem

To the most learned and valerous knight Sr Christopher Heydon

Learning and armes both being much distrest
For want of harbour (since our Sidney dyde,
Sith they sought harbour in one single brest)
At last they entred thine, where they abide
Wherein it's hard to say which hath chiefe place.
Mars or Minuera; but both so do shine
That they in thee are glorious for thy grace,
Which in Fames rubrick thus I enterline
Thou guardest that whereat a Chamber shott,
With many a hott-shott els, and didst returne
Their broken trash (which they for mischiefe gott)
Into their brests where it till death did burne:
So heau'n and earth must eccho lowd thy fame,
Sith they are greatly pleasurde by the same.