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Pronounce, that all these praises should be true, |
And vertue should your beauty,'and birth outgrow. |
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Now that my prophesies are all fulfill'd, |
Rather then God should not be honour'd too, |
And all these gifts confess'd, which hee instill'd, |
Your selfe were bound to say thar which I doe. |
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So I, but your Recorder am in this, |
Or mouth, or Speaker of the universe, |
A ministeriall notary, for 'tis |
Not I, but you and fame, that make this verse; |
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I was your Prophet in your yonger dayes, |
And now your Chaplaine, God in you to praise. |
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To M. I. W. |
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All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire, |
Then hath or shall enkindle any spirit, |
I lov'd what nature gave thee, but this merit |
Of wit and Art I love not but admire; |
Who have before or shall write after thee, |
Their workes, though toughly laboured, will bee |
Like infancie or age to mans firme stay, |
Or earely and late twilights to mid-day.
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[CW: Men] |