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A REMEMBRANCE OF SOME ENGLISH POETS.
LIUE Spenser euer, in thy Fairy Queene:
Whose like (for deepe Conceit) was neuer scene:
Crownd mayst thou bee, vnto thy more renowne,
(As King of Poets) with a Lawrell Crowne.
And Daniell, praised for thy sweet-chast Verse:[1]
Whose Fame is grav'd on Rosamonds blacke Herse.
Still mayst thou liue: and still be honored,
Eor that rare Worke, The White Rose and the Red.
And Drayton, whose wel-written Tragedies,
And sweete Epistles, soare thy fame to skies.
Thy learned Name, is sequall with the rest;
Whose stately Numbers are so well addrest.
And Shakespeare thou, whose hony-flowing[2] Vaine,
(Pleasing the World) thy Praises doth obtaine.[3]
Whose Venus[4] and whose Lucrece (sweete, and chaste)
Thy Name in fames immortall Booke haue plac't.
Liue euer you, at least in Fame liue euer:
Well may the Bodye dye, but Fame dies neuer.[5]
AN ODE.
AS it fell vpon a Day,
In the merrie Month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade,
Which a groue of Myrtles made,
Beastes did leape, and Birds did sing,
Trees did grow, and Plants did spring:
