Has bow’d to Freeman, and has din’d with me;

Who, bred in foreign courts, and early known,

Has yet to learn the cunning of his own;

To titles born, yet heir to no estate,

And harder still, too honest to be great?

If such an one there be, well-bred, polite,

To him I’ll dedicate, for him I’ll write.

Peace to the rest—I can be no man’s slave;

I ask for nothing, tho’ I nothing have.

By fortune humbled, yet not sunk so low