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114.00G.HE1  %X%1To M. I. W.%2
114.00G.001  A%+LL hail sweet Poet, and full of more strong fire,
114.00G.002  Then hath or shall enkindle my dull spirit,
114.00G.003  I lov'd what nature gave thee, but thy merit
114.00G.004  Of wit and art I love not, but admire;
114.00G.005  Who have before or shall write after thee,
114.00G.006  Their works, though toughly laboured, will be
114.00G.007  Like infancy or age to mans firm stay,
114.00G.008  Or early and late twilights to mid-day. [CW:Men]
114.00G.009  Men say, and truly, that they better be [p.169]
114.00G.010  Which be envy'd than pitied: therefore I,
114.00G.011  Because I wish the best, do the envy:
114.00G.012  O wouldst thou by like reason, pity me,
114.00G.013  But care not for me, I, that ever was
114.00G.014  In Natures, and in fortunes gifts, alas,
114.00G.015  (But for thy grace got in the Muses School)
114.00G.016  A Monster and a begger, am a fool.
114.00G.017  Oh how I grieve, that late born modesty 
114.00G.018  Hath got such root in easie waxen hearts,
114.00G.019  That men may not themselves their own good parts
114.00G.020  Extoll, without suspect of surquedry,
114.00G.021  For, but thy self, no subject can be found
114.00G.022  Worthy thy quill, nor any quill resound
114.00G.023  Thy worth but thine: how good it were to see
114.00G.024  A Poem in thy praise, and writ by thee!
114.00G.025  Now if this song be too 'harsh for rime, yet, as
114.00G.026  The Painters bad god made a good devil,
114.00G.027  'Twill be good prose, although the verse be evill.
114.00G.028  If thou forget the rime as thou dost pass,
114.00G.029  Then write, that I may follow, and so be
114.00G.030  Thy eccho, thy debtor, thy foyl, thy zanee.
114.00G.031  I shall be thought (if mine like thine I shape)
114.00G.032  All the worlds Lyon, though I be thy Ape.
114.00G.0SSom
114.00G.0$$  Four 8-line sts; ll. 2,3,7,8 of sts 2-4 ind; no ind in st 1