IDENTILIN$$  F114HH4|TWHail|MS HM 198, pt 1\pp. 171-72\JPK\mf\7-31-92\P:T-LP\o\6-10-93\C:JGW\9-23-99;JSC\7-17-01
114.HH4.0HE  To M:%5r%6 F: W: L#C[see_notes]
114.HH4.001  All haile sweet Poett, more full of strong fire
114.HH4.002  then hath or shall Enkindle my dull spirritt
114.HH4.003  I loue what Nature gave y%5e%6, but this merritt
114.HH4.004  of witt & Art I haue not but admire
114.HH4.005  who haue before or shall write after the
114.HH4.006  theyr workes though tougly labored wilbee
114.HH4.007  like Infancy, or Age, to Mans firme stay
114.HH4.008  or early or late twilight to midday
114.HH4.009  Men say, & truly y%5t%6 they better bee
114.HH4.010  w:%5ch%6 be enuied then pittyed, therfore I
114.HH4.011  because I wish the well doe the enuy
114.HH4.012  Oh, wouldst thow by like reason pitty me
114.HH4.013  but care not for me I y%5t%6 neuer was
114.HH4.014  in Nature & in fortunes guifts, alas
114.HH4.015  (before thy grace) gott in the Muses schoole
114.HH4.016  A monster & A beggarr, ame more fools
114.HH4.017  Oh how I greiue y%5t%6 late borne modesty
114.HH4.018  hath gott such roots in easy waxen harts
114.HH4.019  that men may not, themselus, their owne good parts%Y,%Z
114.HH4.020  extoll, without suspect of surquedry
114.HH4.021  for but thy self no subiect can be found
114.HH4.022  worthy thy quill, nor anny quill resound [CW:om]
114.HH4.023  thy worth but thine, how good itt weer to see [p.172]
114.HH4.024  A poem in thy praise & writt by thee
114.HH4.025  Now if this song be to harsh for rime, yet as
114.HH4.026  the painters bad god made, A good Diuell
114.HH4.027  it wilbe good prose though y%5e%6 verse be euell
114.HH4.028  if thow forgett y%5e%6 Rimes as thow dost pass
114.HH4.029  then write y%5t%6 I may followe, & soe bee
114.HH4.030  thy debtor, thy Echo, thy foile, thy Zanye
114.HH4.031  I shalbe thought, if mine like thine I shape
114.HH4.032  all y%5e%6 worlds Lion though I be thy Ape
114.HH4.0SSom  
114.HH4.0$$  %1Div into 4 8-line sts, numbered in M; in re "L C" following HE, scribe 
has wr. same, usually in M, near HE of nearly all VLs in ms.--likely not part of HEs