IDENTILIN$$  F15400A|Ham-Letter|1633(CtY,DFo,L,MiU)|sigs.Y1v-Y2v,pp.162-64(164 misn 148)
154.00A.HE2  om
154.00A.HE3  S#%9I#R%0, [Y2v]
154.00A.001  I Presume you rather try what you can doe in me, then what /I can
154.00A.002  doe in verse, you know my uttermost when it was /best, and even
154.00A.003  then I did best when I had least truth for my /subjects, In this
154.00A.004  present case there is so much truth as it de-/feats all Poetry.
154.00A.005  Call therefore this paper by what name you /will, and, if it bee
154.00A.006  not worthy of you nor of him, we will smo-/ther it, and be it your
154.00A.007  sacrifice.  If you had commanded mee /to have waited on his body 
154.00A.008  to Scotland and preached there, I /would have embraced your
154.00A.009  obligation with much alacrity; /But, I thanke you that you would
154.00A.010  command me that which I /was loather to doe, for, even that hath
154.00A.011  given a tincture of /merit to the obedience of
154.00A.012  Your poore friend and
154.00A.013  servant in Christ Jesus
154.00A.014  I.D. [CW:%1An%2]
154.00A.$$   Follows text of poem; HE3 indented 2 sp.; line 12, 25 sp.; line 13, 28 sp.; line 14, 40 sp.; ll. 1-11 in italics.