Vpon his Noble Friend, Sir William Skipwith

To frame a man, who in those gifts excels,
Which makes the Country happy where hee dwels,
We first conceiue, what names his Line adorne,
It kindles vertue to be nobly borne.
This picture of true Gentry must be grac'd,
With glitt'ring Iewels round about him plac'd;
A comely body, and a beauteous mind;
A heart to loue, a hand to giue inclin'd;
A house as free, and open as the Ayre;
A tongue which ioyes in Language sweet and faire;
Yet can, when need requires, with courage bold,
To publike eares his neighbours griefes vnfold.
All these we neuer more shall find in one,
And yet all these are clos'd within this stone.