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114.00B.HE1  %X%1To M. I. W.%2
114.00B.001  A%+LL haile sweet Poe%Ut, more ful of more strong fire,
114.00B.002  Then hath or shall enkindle my dull spirit,
114.00B.003  I lov'd what nature gave thee, but thy merit
114.00B.004  Of wit and art I love not, but admire;
114.00B.005  Who have before or shall write after thee,
114.00B.006  Their workes, though toughly laboured, will bee
114.00B.007  Like infancy or age to mans firme stay,
114.00B.008  Or earely and late twilights to mid-day. [CW:Men]
114.00B.009  Men say, and truely, that they better be [p.176]
114.00B.010  Which be envy'd than pittied: therefore I,
114.00B.011  Because I wish thee best, doe thee envie:
114.00B.012  O wouldst thou by like reason, pity me,
114.00B.013  But care not for me, I, that ever was
114.00B.014  In Natures, and in fortunes gifts, alas,
114.00B.015  (But for thy grace got in the Muses Schoole)
114.00B.016  A Monster and a beggar, am a foole.
114.00B.017  Oh how I grieve, that late-borne modesty
114.00B.018  Hath got such root in easie waxen hearts,
114.00B.019  That men may not themselves, their owne good \(parts
114.00B.020  Extoll, without suspect of surquedrie,
114.00B.021  For, but thy selfe, no subject can be found
114.00B.022  Worthy thy quill, nor any quill resound
114.00B.023  Thy worke but thine: how good it were to see[see_info]
114.00B.024  A Poe%Um in thy praise, and writ by thee.
114.00B.025  Now if this song be too'harsh for rime, yet, as
114.00B.026  The Painters bad god made a good devill,
114.00B.027  'Twill be good prose, although the verse be evill.[see_info]
114.00B.028  If thou forget the rime as thou dost passe,
114.00B.029  Then write, then I may follow, and so bee
114.00B.030  Thy debter, thy'eccho, thy foyle, thy zanee.
114.00B.031  I shall be thought (if mine like thine I shape)
114.00B.032  All the worlds Lyon, though I be thy Ape.
114.00B.0SSom
114.00B.0$$  Four 8-line sts; ll.2,3,7,8 of sts 2-4 ind (no ind in st 1); EWS proofed different 
volume at MH from that on mf; l.23: vertical mark at end of line (cd[MH]) might be edge of 
print block; l.27: can't tell from cd(MH) whether end punct. is comma or period