IDENTILIN$$  F114DT1|TWHail|Dublin ms.I|ff. 60v-61|JSC\mf\10-21-96\P&C(hwt,mf):JMK\6-6&7-10-01;JSC\7-25-01
114.DT1.HE1  %XTo M. I. W.
114.DT1.001  All haile sweet Poe%Ut, more full of more stronge fire
114.DT1.002  Then hath, or shall enkindle any spiritt
114.DT1.003  I lou'd what Nature gaue thee, but this meritt
114.DT1.004  Of witt, & art I loue not, but admire
114.DT1.005  Who haue before, or shall write after thee
114.DT1.006  Their works, though toughly laboured will bee
114.DT1.007  Like Infancie, or Age, to mans firme stay
114.DT1.008  Or early, and late twy-lights to middaye [CW:Men]
114.DT1.009  Men say, and truly that they better bee [f.61]
114.DT1.010  w%5ch%6 bee envie'd then pittie'd; therefore I
114.DT1.011  Because I wish thee best doe thee envye
114.DT1.012  O would'st thou by like reason, pittie mee,
114.DT1.013  But care not for mee; I that euer was
114.DT1.014  In Natures, and in ffortunes guiftes, Alass
114.DT1.015  before thy grace gott in the Muses schoole
114.DT1.016  A monster, and a Begger, am a foole.
114.DT1.017  Oh howe I grieue, that late-borne modesty
114.DT1.018  Hath gott such root in easie waxen hearts
114.DT1.019  That men may not themselues their owne good parts
114.DT1.020  Extoll, w%5th%6out suspect of surquedrie
114.DT1.021  ffor but thy self, noe subiect can bee found
114.DT1.022  worthy thy quill, nor any quill resound
114.DT1.023  thy worke, but thine, howe good it were to see
114.DT1.024  A Poe%Um in thy praise, and writt by thee.
114.DT1.025  Nowe if this Song bee t'harsh for Rime, yet as
114.DT1.026  The Painters bad God made a good Deuill
114.DT1.027  T'will bee good Prose although y%5e%6 verse bee euill
114.DT1.028  If thou forgett the Rime, as thou dost passe
114.DT1.029  Then write, then I may followe, and soe bee
114.DT1.030  Thy Debtor, th'Eccho, the ffoile, the Zanee
114.DT1.031  I shalbee thought, if mine like thine I shape
114.DT1.032  All the worlds Lion, though I bee thy Ape.
114.DT1.0SS  ffinis.|
114.DT1.0$$  %1Four 8-l. sts, ll. 2-3 & 7-8 of each ind; scribal hand is ital; SS at RM%2