Living

Fatum subscribat Eliza: To the most excellent Princesse ELIZABETH, onely Daughter to our

by Henry Peacham 1576?–1643?

From Minerva Britanna (1612)

Living

FAIRE Princesse, great, religious, modest, wise,
By birth, by zeale, behauiour, iudgment sound,
By whose faire arme, my Muse did first arise,
That crept before full lowly on the ground,
And durst not yet from her darke shade aspire,
Till thou sweete Sunne, didst helpe to raise her higher.

Thus since by thee, shee hath her life and sappe,
And findes her growth by thy deere cherishment,
In thy aire eie consistes her future hap:
Heere write her fate, her date, her banishment,
Or may she that day-lasting Lillie be,
Or SOLI-SEQVIVM e're to follow thee.

MLA

Peacham, Henry. “Fatum subscribat Eliza: To the most excellent Princesse ELIZABETH, onely Daughter to our.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/peacham/13/.

Chicago

Peacham, Henry. “Fatum subscribat Eliza: To the most excellent Princesse ELIZABETH, onely Daughter to our.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/peacham/13/.

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