The Epistle. 7). 
2 
“ To the Right Honorable and my speciall 
good Lord and Master, the Lord 
Thomas Paget of Beaudesert, 
sone and heire to his late* 
father deceased. 
Chap. 2. 
M* Lord, your father looued me, 
and you my Lord haue prooued me, 
and both your loues haue mooued me, 
to write as here is donne: 
Since God hath hence your father, 
such flowers as I gather, 
I dedicate now rather, 
to you my Lord his sonne. 
2 Your father was my founder, 
till death became his wounder, 
no subiect euer sounder, 
whome Prince aduancement gaue : 
As God did here defend him, 
and honour here did send him, 
so will I here commend him, 
as long as life I haue. 
3 His neighbours then did blisse him, 
his seruants now doe misse him, 
the poore would gladlie kisse him, 
aliue againe to be: 
But God hath wrought his pleasure, 
and blest him, out of measure, 
with heauen and earthlie treasure, 
so good a God is he. 
1 In the edition of 1575 the word Thomas, and the words following 
Beaudesert, do not occur. and the whole Epistle precedes that to Lord 
William Paget. 
