IDENTILIN$$  C11400A|TWHail|1633|pp. 93-94\E:ME\mf\7-20-87\P:EWS\o(OJ;MH[STC7045(A)])\5-23-00;\7-30-02\C:JMK\3-20-00;JSC\3-21-01;8-21-02\P:DAS\cd(DFo)\8-12-00\C:JSC\3-3-03\p:AWJ\cd(TxAM1),fs(L)\2-18-05\c:JAH\2-23-05
114.00A.HE1  %XTo M.%1I.W.%2[see_info]
114.00A.001  A%+Ll haile sweet Poe%Ut, more full of more strong fire,
114.00A.002  Then hath or shall enkindle any spirit,
114.00A.003  I lov'd what nature gave thee, but this merit
114.00A.004  Of wit and Art I love not but admire;
114.00A.005  Who have before or shall write after thee,
114.00A.006  Their workes, though toughly laboured, will bee
114.00A.007  Like infancie or age to mans firme stay,
114.00A.008  Or earely and late twilights to mid-day. [CW:Men]
114.00A.009  Men say, and truly, that they better be [p.94]
114.00A.010  Which be envyed then pittied: therefore I,
114.00A.011  Because I wish thee best, doe thee envie:
114.00A.012  O wouldst thou, by like reason, pitty mee,
114.00A.013  But care not for mee, I, that ever was
114.00A.014  In Natures, and in fortunes gifts, (alas,
114.00A.015  Before by[DFo,M] thy grace got in th'[see_info] Muses Schoole)
114.00A.016  A monster and a begger, am a foole.
114.00A.017  Oh how I grieve, that late borne modesty
114.00A.018  Hath got such root in easie waxen hearts,
114.00A.019  That men may not themselves, their owne good \(parts
114.00A.020  Extoll, without suspect of surquedrie,
114.00A.021  For, but thy selfe, no subject can be found
114.00A.022  Worthy thy quill, nor any quill resound
114.00A.023  Thy worke but thine: how good it were to see
114.00A.024  A Poem[Poe%Um(MH;OJ;TxAM1;L)] in thy praise, and writ by thee.
114.00A.025  Now if this song be too'harsh for rime, yet, as
114.00A.026  The Painters bad god made a good devill,
114.00A.027  'Twill be good prose, although the verse be evill.
114.00A.028  If thou forget the rime as thou dost passe,
114.00A.029  Then write, then I may follow, and so bee
114.00A.030  Thy debter, thy'eccho, thy foyle, thy zanee.
114.00A.031  I shall be thought, if mine like thine I shape,
114.00A.032  All the worlds Lyon, though I be thy Ape. [CW:To]
114.00A.0SS  [om]
114.00A.0$$  Four 8-ll. sts; ll. 2,3,7,8 of each st (except st 1: ll.2-3 only) 
ind -- EWS to ck mf to see if variants or errors; HE: I'd read spaces after M. 
& W. in DFo & M copies; l.15: "the" in MH,OJ,TxAM "th'" in DFo(cd),M(fs)