To the Right Honourable Edward, Earle of Dorcet, Baron Buckhurst, Knight of the Garter, Lord Chamberlaine to the Queens Majestie
Ever may you (a Cask or cabinet)
Deckt with rich precious stones, (which therein see
Worthily do adorn your worthy minde)
Along and lasting life for ever finde;
Rightly a Noble Cask you are, wherein
Dwells lewels that full long in you have bin.
See what heroick vertue doth excell,
And you shall finde it in this Cask to dwell:
Cask noble then, our Royall vertuous Queen
Keeps well in memory what you have been,
Views well your vertue: and doth honour you.
Your honours great King Charles too doth pursue;
Live then Owarded Cask , which warded been
Ev'n as by vertue, so by King and Queen.
Deckt with rich precious stones, (which therein see
Worthily do adorn your worthy minde)
Along and lasting life for ever finde;
Rightly a Noble Cask you are, wherein
Dwells lewels that full long in you have bin.
See what heroick vertue doth excell,
And you shall finde it in this Cask to dwell:
Cask noble then, our Royall vertuous Queen
Keeps well in memory what you have been,
Views well your vertue: and doth honour you.
Your honours great King Charles too doth pursue;
Live then Owarded Cask , which warded been
Ev'n as by vertue, so by King and Queen.
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