To the Right Honourable, Robert, Earle of Nithisdaille, Lord Maxwell, Eskdall and Carleill
Rightly indeed your Marble Innocence,
O unexampled Peere, shews your defence,
Best plac'd in vertue is who purest white,
Ever but darkly figures, to speak right;
Rightly the firmnes of the Marble shewes
The constancy, your vertuous heart pursues:
Exhert then Sir by your example well ,
More then some Pulpit-Preacher, who can tell
A thousand things, but practiseth not one;
Xerxes his itomack in you well is showne,
With you remaineth Xenophous prudence,
Entred upon your Marble innocence:
Live still, and Marble innocence shall be
Lasting defence with sapience unto thee.
O unexampled Peere, shews your defence,
Best plac'd in vertue is who purest white,
Ever but darkly figures, to speak right;
Rightly the firmnes of the Marble shewes
The constancy, your vertuous heart pursues:
Exhert then Sir by your example well ,
More then some Pulpit-Preacher, who can tell
A thousand things, but practiseth not one;
Xerxes his itomack in you well is showne,
With you remaineth Xenophous prudence,
Entred upon your Marble innocence:
Live still, and Marble innocence shall be
Lasting defence with sapience unto thee.
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