the Right Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Walter Raleigh,
649 Lord Warden of the Stannaries, and Lieutenant of
650 Cornwall_
651
652 To you, that are the summer's nightingale,

nightingale > (Cf. I:241)

653 Your sovereign goddess' most dear delight,
654 Why do I send this rustic madrigal,
655 That may your tuneful ear unseason quite?

unseason > {Strike or affect disagreeably}

656 You only fit this argument to write,

You only > [Only you are]
argument > subject-matter

657 In whose high thoughts Pleasure has built her bower,

bower > chamber, retreat

658 And dainty love learned sweetly to indite.
659 My rhymes I know unsavoury and sour

know > [know to be too]

660 To taste the streams, that like a golden shower
661 Flow from your fruitful head, of your love's praise,
662 Fitter perhaps to thunder martial stour,

stour > conflict, tumult

663 Whenso you list your lofty Muse to raise:

Whenso > Whenever
list > choose, please

664 Yet till you your poem will make known,

your poem > (_The Ocean's Love to Cynthia_, a paean to Queen
Elizabeth)

665 Let your fair Cynthia's praises be thus rudely shown.

rudely > roughly, crudely

666 _E. S._
667
668
669 _To the right honourable and most vertuous Lady, the
670 Countesse of Penbroke_.
671
672 REmembraunce of that most Heroicke spirit,
673 The heuens pride, the glory of our daies,
674 Which now triumpheth through immortall merit
675 Of his braue vertues, crownd with lasting baies,
676 Of heuenlie blis and euerlasting praies;
677 Who first my Muse did lift out of the flore,
678 To sing his sweet delights in lowlie laies;
679 Bids me most noble Lady to adore
680 His goodly image liuing euermore,
681 In the diuine resemblaunce of your face;
682 Which with your vertues ye embellish more,
683 And natiue beauty deck with heuenlie grace:
684 For his, and for your owne especial sake,
685 Vouchsafe from him this token in good worth to take.
686 E. S.
687
668
669 _To the Right Honourable and Most Virtuous Lady, the
670 Countess of Pembroke_

Countess of Pembroke > (Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, 1555?-
1621, patroness of the