Virtus Romanaet antiqua: To the right worshipfull Sir DAVID MVRRAY Knight

THVS HERCVLES, the Romanes did devise,
And in their Temples, him a place assignd:
To represent vnto the peoples eies,
The image of, th'Heroique virtuous mind:
Who like ALCIDES, to her lasting praise,
In action still, delightes to spend her dayes.

Within whose hand, three apples are of gold,
The same which from th' Hesperides he fetcht,
These are the three Heroique vertues old,
The Lions skinne, about his shoulders stretcht,
Notes fortitude, his Clubbe the crabbed paine,
To braue atcheiuements, ere we can attaine.