Poems with rhymes of EXcel

Chloris! yourself you so excel,
When you vouchsafe to breathe my thought,
That, like a spirit, with this spell

You say 'tis hard to copy well,
Where Nature does herself excel.

So much religion in your name doth dwell,
Your soul must needs with piety excel.

Though they in number as in sense excel;
So just, so like tautology they fell,

Let such teach others who themselves excel,
And censure freely who have written well;

Gone is thy beauty, that did all excel :
Alas ! How can I bid thee now farewell !

In both they do excel
Who the present govern well,

And like wise God she judges well.
Yet doth much her love excel

Alex. Thus do our Priests of Heavenly Pastures tell,
Eternal Groves, all Earthly, that excel:

Whom I do love so well,
I have a more beloved one
Whose comforts far excel.

Of Blouzelinda fair I mean to tell,
The peerless maid that did all maids excel.

Is not without those things that do excel
What do in brave but empty notions dwell.

Thy spreading worth in various bounty fell,
Made genius flourish, and made art excel.

Immortal! William Shakespeare, there's none can you excel,
You have drawn out your characters remarkably well,

If you ask where such Wights do dwell,
In what Bless't Clime, that so excel?

Striving for more than to do well,
That nightingales he might excel.

Or in what they do excel
Our word, song. It sounds as well

The sparhawk to excel ;
Which flieth but in the night,
As all men know right well.

Here would my praises and my fancy dwell;
But it, alas, description does excel.

Thou second Rome, where mercy, justice, dwell,
Whose sons in wisdom as in arms excel!