MOst happy letters fram'd by skilfull trade, <br />with which that happy name was first defynd: <br />the which three times thrise happy hath me made, <br />with guifts of body, fortune and of mind. <br />The first my being to me gaue by kind, <br />from mothers womb deriu'd by dew descent, <br />the second is my souereigne Queene most kind, <br />that honour and large richesse to me lent. <br />The third my loue, my liues last ornament, <br />by whom my spirit out of dust was raysed: <br />to speake her prayse and glory excellent, <br />of all aliue most worthy to be praysed. <br />Ye three Elizabeths for euer liue, <br />that three such graces did vnto me giue.<br /><br />Edmund Spenser<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-lxxiiii/
