From an unworthy hand, receive redresse;

Nor, when I need a Suretie, would I call

An Vnthrift, or a roaring Prodigall:

For, either these I thanklesly must shun,

Or, humour them, and be perhaps undone.

I would not heare my Friend unwisely prate

Those things, of which I must informe the State:

And, seeme unfriendly; or, else leave to doe,

That, which a stronger Band obligeth to.

Nor would I, for the world, my heart should bee