IDENTILIN$$  F114C09|TWHail|Luttrell MS|f. 62v\E:GL\P:EWS\o\7-6-95\C:JSC\Sept'95;5-29-01
114.C09.0HE  %X%JA Letter%K. Incerto.
114.C09.001  All haile, sweet Poet, more full of more strong fire
114.C09.002  Then hath or shall enkindle my dull spiritt
114.C09.003  I loue what nature gaue thee, but thy meritt
114.C09.004  of witt & art I loue not but admire.
114.C09.005  Who hath before or shall write after thee
114.C09.006  Their workes, though toughly laboared, will bee
114.C09.007  Like Infancy or Age to mans firme stay
114.C09.008  Or Early or Late, Twilight or midday.
114.C09.009  Men say, & truly, that they better bee
114.C09.010  which be enuy'd then pitty'd, therfore I
114.C09.011  Because I wish thee best do thee enuy;
114.C09.012  Oh wouldst thou by like reason pitty me!
114.C09.013  But care not for me; I that euer was
114.C09.014  In Fortunes or in Natures guifts, alas
114.C09.015  (but by thy grace gott in y%5e%6 muses Schoole)
114.C09.016  A monster & a beggar, am now a foole.|
114.C09.017  O%C how I greiue y%5t%6 late borne Modesty
114.C09.018  Hath gott such root in all soft waxen hearts
114.C09.019  That men may not themselues their owne good parts
114.C09.020  Extoll without suspect of Surquedry.
114.C09.021  But for thyselfe no subiect can be found
114.C09.022  Worthy thy quill, or any quill resound
114.C09.023  Thy worth, but thine.  How good it were to see
114.C09.024  A Poeme in thy praise & writt by thee!
114.C09.025  Now if this song bee too harsh for rime; yet as
114.C09.026  The Painters bad God made a good Deuill
114.C09.027  Twill be good prose though the verse be Euill;
114.C09.028  If thou forgett the rime as thou dost passe.
114.C09.029  Then write y%5t%6 I may follow, & so bee
114.C09.030  Thy debtor, foyle, thy Eccho, thy Zany
114.C09.031  I will be thought, if mine like thine I shape
114.C09.032  All the worlds lyon though I bee thine Ape. [CW:>>Like#one<<]
114.C09.0SS  [horiz. lines]
114.C09.0$$  %1No sts; ll. 2 4 6 18 19 ind 4 sp; underlining in HE is directly 
under "A Letter" but is probably just a line to separate HE from body, as with 
other poems in this ms.--"Incerto." apparently added AFTER heading was centered%2