Is equally both farre and neare.  So doth none other figure fare Where natures chattels closed are:  And beyond his wide compasse, There is no body nor no place, Nor any wit that comprehends, Where it begins, or where it ends:  And therefore all men doe agree, That it purports eternitie.  God aboue the heauens so hie Is this Roundell, in world the skie, Vpon earth she, who beares the bell Of maydes and Queenes, is this Roundell:  All and whole and euer alone, Single, sans peere, simple, and one.

A speciall and particular resemblance of her Maiestie to the Roundell.

First her authoritie regall Is the circle compassing all:  The dominion great and large Which God hath geuen to her charge:  Whithin which most spatious bound She enuirons her people round, Retaining them by oth and liegeance.  Whithin the pale of true obeysance:  Holding imparked as it were, Her people like to heards of deere.  Sitting among them in the middes Where foe allowes and bannes and bids In what fashion she list and when, The seruices of all her men.  Out of her breast as from an eye, Issue the rayes incessantly Of her iustice, bountie and might Spreading abroad their beams so bright And reflect not, till they attaine The fardest part of her domaine.  And makes eche subiect clearley see, What he is bounden for to be To God his Prince and common wealth, His neighbour, kinred and to himselfe.  The same centre and middle pricke, Whereto our deedes are drest so thicke, From all the parts and outmost side Of her Monarchie large and wide, Also fro whence reflect these rayes, Twentie hundred maner of wayes Where her will is them to conuey Within the circle of her suruey.  So is the Queene of Briton ground, Beame, circle, center of all my round.

_ Of the square or quadrangle equilater._

The square is of all other accompted the figure of most folliditie and stedfastnesse, and for his owne stay and firmitie requireth none other base then himselfe, and therefore as the roundell or Spheare is appropriat to the heauens, the Spire to the element of the fire:  the Triangle to the ayre, and the Lozange to the water:  so is the square for his inconcussable steadinesse likened to the earth, which perchaunce might be the reason that the Prince of Philosophers in his first booke of the Ethicks, termeth a constant minded man, euen egal and direct on all sides, and not easily ouerthrowne by euery little aduersitie, hominem quadratum, a square man.  Into this figure may ye reduce your ditties by vsing no moe verses then your verse is of sillables, which will make him fall out square, if ye go aboue it wil grow into the figure Trapezion, which is some portion longer then square.  I neede not giue you any example, by cause in good arte all your ditties, Odes & Epigrammes should keepe & not exceede the nomber of twelue verses, and the longest verse to be of twelue sillables & not aboue, but vnder that number as much as ye will.