The thanks that he doth look for, here I pay,

Yet fear some heavenly envy, as he goes

Unto what great reward I cannot say.

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I will be what God made me, nor protest

Against the bent of genius in my time,

That science of my friends robs all the best,

While I love beauty, and was born to rhyme.

Be they our mighty men, and let me dwell

In shadow among the mighty shades of old,