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For singing with a spirit most profound,
They shall enlarge this happy countries name,
From Pole to Pole with endlesse golden fame.

And now I see that man, whose name shall bee
Bruted with liuing praise in euery part:
Whom I may well for golden verse compare
To Phebe, to Mars in armes and martiall art,
Ansias March, who (flowring meade) of thee,
Loue, vertue, and death, shall sing with verse most rare
Taking for honorable and his iust emprese
To celebrate the vertues of Terese.

Well shall he shew himselfe to be the sonne
Of Peter March, who both in peace, and war,
Learned in verse, in armes most mighty heere,
Shall make his countrie famous very far:
Whose noble linage (when that they are done)
Where in renowned valour doth appeere,
Shall giue a Iayme, and Arnau in those daies
Poets, whom heauen shall fauour many waies.

Giorgio del Rey with verse most high and stately
My banks shall honour, and with garlands crown’d
By all my fairest Nymphes, that shall imbrace him,
His name with double ecchoes shall resound:
The gentle Planets fauouring but lately
His fellow Poets, in such sort shall grace him,
That Italie shall woonder at his verse,
And die for spite his sweete songs to reherse.

Now Fraunces Oliuer, that with thy voice
Lifting thee vp vnto the Azur’d heauen,
Dost wound the same: And thee renown’d Figueres
Whose verse shall be most pleasant, fine and euen,
And thee Martin Garcy, that maist reioice,
That (mauger death) thy fame time neuer weares:
And Innocent of Cubels I doe see,
Who well deserues a crowne of Laurell tree.

Shepherdes, you shall haue heere a man of woorth,
That with the vertue of his secret skill,
And herbes, shall helpe your languors and your smartes,
And mend your liues with verses at his will:
Then Nymphes strow flowers and sweetest herbes powre foorth
Vnto great layme Royg with thankfull hartes,
Crowne him with Bay, with Parsley, and with Tyme,
For famous skill in phisicke, and in ryme.