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TO MY
HONOURED FRIEND
Edward Howard Esq.
On his Heroick Poem, The Brittish Princes.
That Noble Poem, which thou giv'st us now,
Does both oblige the Dead, and Living too:
Till the old Brittains fame thou didst display,
Their Glories were interr'd, as much as they.
And all the world by what thou now dost write,
Are bravely taught both how to Love, and Fight.
To purchase Fame two things are requisite,
Great Deeds, and those by a great Poet writ:
Æneas Glory had not liv'd so long,
Had it not been the Theam of Maro's Song:
Does both oblige the Dead, and Living too:
Till the old Brittains fame thou didst display,
Their Glories were interr'd, as much as they.
And all the world by what thou now dost write,
Are bravely taught both how to Love, and Fight.
To purchase Fame two things are requisite,
Great Deeds, and those by a great Poet writ:
Æneas Glory had not liv'd so long,
Had it not been the Theam of Maro's Song:
Arthur
