A Remembrance of some English Poets.

LIue Spenser euer, in thy Fairy Queene:
Whose like (for deepe Conceit) was neuer seene.
Crownd mayst thou be, vnto thy more renowne,
(As King of Poets) with a Lawrell Crowne.


And Daniell, praised for thy sweet-chast verse:
Whose Fame is grav'd on Rosamonds blacke Herse.
Still mayst thou liue: and still be honoured,
For that rare worke, The White Rose and the Red.


And Drayton, whose well-written Tragedies,
And sweet Epistles, soare thy fame to skies.
Thy learned Name, is equall with the rest;
Whose stately Numbers are so well addrest.


And Shakespeare, thou, whose hony flowing vaine,
(Pleasing the World) thy Praises doth containe.
Whose venus, and whose Lucrece (sweet, and chast)
Thy Name in fames immortall Booke haue plac't.
Liue euer you, at least in Fame liue euer:
Well may the Body die, but Fame die neuer.

 

Finis.