Every Christian heart
seeketh to extoll
The glory of the Lord,
our onely Redeemer:
Wherefore Dame Fame
must needs inroll
Paul Withypoll his childe,
by love and Nature,
Elizabeth, the wife
of Emmanuel Lucar,
In whom was declared
the goodnesse of the Lord,
With many high vertues,
which truely I will record.

She wrought all Needle workes
that women exercise,
With Pen, Frame, or Stoole,
all Pictures artificiall,
Curious Knots or Trailes,
what fancy would devise,
Beasts, Brids, or Flowers,
even as things naturall:
Three manner hands could she
write, them faire all.
To speake of Algorisme,
or accounts, in every fashion,
Of women, few like
(I thinke) in all this Nation.

Dame Cunning her gave
a gift right excellent,
The goodly practice
of her Science Musicall,
In divers tongues to sing,
and play with Instrument,
Both Viall and Lute,
and also Virginall;
Not onely upon one,
but excellent in all.
Foe all other vertues
belonging to Nature,
God her appointed
a very perfect creature.

Latine and Spanish,
and also Italian,
She spake, writ, and read,
with perfect utterance;
And for the English,
she the Garland wan,
In Dame Prudence Schoole,
by Graces purveyance,
Which cloathed her with Vertues,
from naked Ignorance:
Reading the Scriptures,
to judge light from darke,
Directing her faith to Christ,
the onely Marke.