| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | The Vanity of Fame | | LXXV. Samuel Daniel |
| | | ALAS! poore fame, in what a narrow roome | |
| As an incaged parrot, art thou pent | |
| Here amongst vs, where euen as good be dumbe | |
| As speake, and to be heard with no attent? | |
| How can you promise of the time to come, | 5 |
| When as the present are so negligent? | |
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| Is this the walke of all your wide renowne, | |
| This little point, this scarce discerned ile, | |
| Thrust from the world, with whome our speech vnknowne | |
| Made neuer any traffic of our stile? | 10 |
| And is this all, where all this care is sowne, | |
| T’ inchant your fame to last so long a while? | |
| And for that happier tongues haue wonne so much, | |
| Thinke you to make your barbarous language such? | |
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| Poore narrow limites for so mighty paines, | 15 |
| That cannot promise any forraine vent! | |
| And yet if here to all your wondrous vaines | |
| Were generally known, it might content: | |
| But loe, how many reades not or disdaines | |
| The labours of the chief and excellent! | 20 | | | |
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