IDENTILIN$$ F114H05|TWHail|ms. 966.4 (Dobell)|f. 175v|p. 352\KJH\mf\7-19-94\P:DF\o\1-20-01\C:JMK\2-6-01;JSC\3-6-01
114.H05.HE1 %XA l%Wre. incog:%- 
114.H05.001 All haile, sweete Poet, more full of more stronge fire
114.H05.002 then hath or shall enkindle my dull spirit
114.H05.003 I loue what Nature gaue thee, but thy meritt
114.H05.004 of witt and art I loue not, but admire.
114.H05.005 who hath before, or shall write after thee,
114.H05.006 their workes though toughly laboured, wilbe
114.H05.007 like infancy or age to mans firme stay,
114.H05.008 or early or late Twilight to Mid-day.
114.H05.009 Men say, and truly, that they better be
114.H05.010 w%5ch%6 be envy'd then pitty'd, therefore I
114.H05.011 because I wish thee best, doe thee envy;
114.H05.012 O wouldst thou by like reason, pitty me.
114.H05.013 But care not for me, I that neuer was
114.H05.014 in ffortunes or in Natures guifts, alas,
114.H05.015 but, by thy grace, gott in the Muses Schoole
114.H05.016 a monster and a beggar, am nowe a foole.
114.H05.017 O howe I greiue, that late-borne Modesty
114.H05.018 hath got such roote in all softe waxen harts,
114.H05.019 that men may not themselues theire owne good parts
114.H05.020 extoll, without suspect of Surquedry.
114.H05.021 but for thy selfe no subiect can be found
114.H05.022 worthy thy quill, or any quill resound
114.H05.023 thy worth, but thine: howe good it were to see
114.H05.024 a Poeme in thy prayse, and writt by thee?
114.H05.025 Nowe yf this songe be too harsh for ryme, yet as
114.H05.026 the painters bad God made a good Deuill,
114.H05.027 't wilbe good Prose, although the verse be euill,
114.H05.028 yf thou forgett the ryme >as< athou dost passe.
114.H05.029 Then write that I may followe, and soe be
114.H05.030 thy debtour, thy foyle, thy Eccho, thy Zanee:
114.H05.031 I wilbe thought, yf mine like thine I shape,
114.H05.032 all the worlds Lyon, though I be thy Ape.%-
114.H05.0SS [Scribal grape design]
114.H05.0$$ %1Ll. 2-3, 18-19, 26-27, and 31-32 ind; the "l%W" in the HE is an 
idiosyncratic crossed "l"--apparently indicating contraction; "175" on HE line 
matches p.no. in B & C where this poem begins (& only coincidentally appears 
on f.175v; see surrounding poems) --JSC%2