“More Faithful than Favoured.”

“Reason in man cannot effect such love

As Nature doth in them that Reason want:

Ulysses true and kind his dog did prove

When Faith in better friends was very scant.

My travels for my Friends have been as true

Tho’ not as far as Fortune did him bear;

No friends my Love and Faith divided knew,

Tho’ neither this nor that once equall’d were,

But in my dog, whereof I made no store,