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<Text id=DanEpis>
<Author>Daniel, Samuel</Author>
<Title>Epistles</Title>
<Edition>Poems and A Defence of Ryme. Arthur Colby Sprague, ed. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1965</Edition>
<Date>1603</Date>
<body>
<loc><locdoc>DanEpis101</locdoc><milestone n=101>
<div0 type=letter>
<l>TO</l>
<l>SIR THO: EGERTON KNIGHT,</l>
<l>LORD KEEPER OF THE GREAT</l>
<l>SEALE OF ENGLAND.</l>
<l>WEll hath the powreful hand of Maiestie,</l>
<l>Thy worthines, and <i>Englands</i> happe beside,</l>
<l>Set thee in th`aidfulst roome of dignitie,</l>
<l>As th`<i>Isthmus</i>, these two Oceans to divide</l>
<l>Of <i>Rigor</i> and confus'd <i>Uncertaintie</i>,</l>
<l n=10>To keepe out th'entercourse of wrong and pride, </l>
<l>By th'extreame current of licencious might.</l>
<l>Now when we see the most combining band,</l>
<l>The strongest fastning of societie</l>
<l><i>Law</i>, whereon all this frame of men doth stand,</l>
<l>Remaine concussed with uncertaintie,</l>
<l>And seeme t . . .
