1524?-96, Governor
of Berwick. First cousin of the Queen and chamberlain of the royal
household)

549 Chamberlain to Her Majesty_
550
551 Renowned lord, that for your worthiness
552 And noble deeds have your deserved place
553 High in the favour of that empress,
554 The world's sole glory and her sex's grace;
555 Here eke of right have you a worthy place,

eke > also

556 Both for your nearness to that Faery Queen,
557 And for your own high merit in like case,

like > [a] similar

558 Of which apparent proof was to be seen
559 When that tumultuous rage and fearful deen

deen > din, noise

560 Of northern rebels you did pacify,

northern rebels > (Who wished in 1569 to assert the right of Mary
Stuart to succeed, or supplant, Elizabeth)

561 And their disloyal power defaced clean,

defaced clean > utterly destroyed

562 The record of enduring memory.
563 Live, lord, for ever in this lasting verse,
564 That all posterity your honour may rehearse.

That > [So that]
rehearse > relate, give an account of

565 _E. S._
566
567
568 To the most renowmed and valiant Lord, the
569 Lord Grey of Wilton, knight of the Noble order
570 of the Garter, &c.
571
572 MOst Noble Lord the pillor of my life,
573 And Patrone of my Muses pupillage,
574 Through whose large bountie poured on me rife,
575 In the first season of my feeble age,
576 I now doe liue, bound yours by vassalage:
577 Sith nothing euer may redeeme, nor reaue
578 Out of your endlesse debt so sure a gage,
579 Vouchsafe in worth this small guift to receaue,
580 Which in your noble hands for pledge I leaue,
581 Of all the rest, that I am tyde t'account:
582 Rude rymes, the which a rustick Muse did weaue
583 In sauadge soyle, far from Parnasso mount,
584 And roughly wrought in an vnlearned Loome:
585 The which vouchsafe dear Lord your fauorable doome.
586
587
567
568 _To the Most Renowned and Valiant Lord, the
569 Lord Grey of Wilton, Knight of the Noble Order

Lord Grey > (Arthur Grey, 14th Lord Grey de Wilton, 1536-93, Lord
Deputy of Ireland from 1580-82; on appointment he made Spenser his
private secretary)

570 of the Garter, etc.