Classic Poem

To my much honored worthy friend Sir Oliuer Cheyny Knight.

R OYALL as honor'd knight: here Loue presumes
To meate thy worth by leuell and by line;
Yet aymes to do thee honor and assumes
To grace thee; if it faile of that designe
Loue as at hate itselfe shall still repine;
For thou deseru'st such measure as I may
Misse in my numbers rightly to define:
 With which acknowledgement my pen shall stay:
 Sith so it doth thy worth at large display.