IDENTILIN$$ F114B07 TWHail|Add. 18647, ff. 31v-32\GL\P:GAS\o\6-17-95\C:JSC ('95 & 7-25-00) 114.B07.0HE %X%3To: M: I: W:%4 114.B07.001 All haile sweet Poet; more full of more stronge fire 114.B07.002 Then hath or shall enkindle any spirit 114.B07.003 I lou'd what Nature gave thee, but this meritt 114.B07.004 Of witt, and Art I love not but admire 114.B07.005 Who have before, or shall write after thee 114.B07.006 Their workes though toughly laboured will bee 114.B07.007 Like infancy, or age, to mans firme stay 114.B07.008 or early, and late twylightes to middaye 114.B07.009 Men saye and truly that they better bee 114.B07.010 W.%5ch%6 be envied then pittied, therefore I 114.B07.011 Because I wish thee best do thee envie 114.B07.012 O would'st thou by like reason, pittie mee 114.B07.013 But care not for me, I that ever was 114.B07.014 In Natures, and in fortunes guiftes, Alass 114.B07.015 Before thy grace, gott in the Muses Schoole 114.B07.016 A monster, and a Begger, am a ffoole| [CW:Oh] 114.B07.017 Oh how I greeve that late borne modestie [f.32] 114.B07.018 Hath gott such roote in easie waxen hartes 114.B07.019 That men maye not themselves, their owne good \(partes 114.B07.020 Extoll, w%5th%6out suspect of surquedrie 114.B07.021 for but thy selfe, no subiect, Can be found 114.B07.022 Worthy thy quill, nor any quill resound 114.B07.023 Thy workes but thine, how good it were to see 114.B07.024 A Poeme, in thy praise, and witt[sic] by thee 114.B07.025 Now if this songe be t'harsh for Rime, yet as 114.B07.026 The Painters bad God made a good Divell 114.B07.027 T'will be good prose, although the verse be evell 114.B07.028 If thou forgett the Rime, as thou dost pass 114.B07.029 Then write, then I maye follow, and soe bee 114.B07.030 Thy debtor, th'Ecco, the ffoyle, and the Launce[sic] 114.B07.031 I shall be though, if mine like thine I shape 114.B07.032 All the worlds Lyon, though I be thy Ape| 114.B07.0SS [om] 114.B07.0$$ %1Div into 8-line sts: ll.2-3 of each st ind 3 sp, ll. 7-8 of ea st ind 5 sp%2