With thy radyant beames so hye of fauoure

Deuoydynge all trechery debate and rancoure

Any yllumyne the mynde with lyberalyte

Of our good souerayne with welth and vnyte

 Venus.

 And lady Venus with thy sone Cupyde

Of euery lorde do nowe the herte enspyre

With feruent loue that he do not slyde

And of the comyns set the hertes on fyre

To loue our souerayne with theyr hole desyre

Folowynge his grace with dulcet armonye

To the ryghtfull waye withouten Ieoperdye

 Mercury

 Also thou Mercury the god of eloquence

The gentyll sterre of grace and vertue

Thy beames of ryght peace and conscyence

On our kynges counsayll downe send and renue

The trouthe of Iustyce / that they may extue

For to do wronge by the synne of couetyce

That here before hathe done grete preiudyce

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