YOU have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things

(Vertue, Art, Beauty, Fortune,) now I see

Rarenesse, or use, not nature value brings;

And such, as they are circumstanc'd, they bee.

5Two ills can ne're perplexe us, sinne to'excuse;

But of two good things, we may leave and chuse.

Therefore at Court, which is not vertues clime,

(Where a transcendent height, (as, lownesse mee)

Makes her not be, or not show) all my rime

10Your vertues challenge, which there rarest bee;