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Pembrooks great Peere Prime in your meekenes well,
Heroickly proclaiming you excell,
Insue your Honour still, ob Sir mount on ,
Letting no time slip; and from you be gone;
In the Kings favour Prime, Prime in your place,
Prime in your meekenesse too, ah see heer's grace.

Prime Peere , then daigne to gerdon my weake pen,
Expressing of your vertues unto men:
Meekenesse in you hath boldnesse bred in me,
Boldly enough this to present to thee;
Right noble then like a true noble man,
O daigne not my infirmity to scan:
On my sex cast your Eye with free faire looke,
Keeping your ancient meekenesse , take the Booke
Expressing so you are a Prime meeke Peere :

And I shall pray you may mount higher heere,
Nobly your Titles filling with more ease,
Declaring rightly your true noblenesse;
Mount may you rightly on , and higher clime,
On may your off-spring mount in after time,
Vertues inheriting, from thee may they,
Nobly like beames, as you have done, display:
This to thy Lot (Great Peere ) whatere to me,
Great troupes of enemies doe harmfully,
On by their malice, so still forward sett,
Making me lodge by hap had not hap bett
Ene unto me befalne, they had destroyed
(Raging) your Servant, this had I enjoyed,
Yea I by hap had Lodged in the grave.
Except by hap good lawes that hap did save.
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