His Muse speakes to him.

THy vowes are heard, and thy Castara's name
Is writ as faire ith' Register of Fame,
As th' ancient beauties which translated are
By Poets up to heaven; each there a starre.
And though Imperiall Tiber boast alone
Ovids Corinaa, and to Ar… is knowne
But Petrarchs Laura; while our famous Thames
Doth murmur Sydneyes Stella to her streames.
Yet hast thou Sever…e left, and she can bring
As many quires of Swans, as they to sing
Thy glorious love: Which living shall by thee
The onely Sov'ragine of those waters be.
Dead in loves firmament, no starre shall shine
So nobly faire, so purely chaste as thine.