He the sweet Sales, of whom we scarcely ken

How God he could love more, he so loved men;

The crown and crowned of Laura and Italy;

And Fletcher’s fellow—from these, and not from me,

Take you your name, and take your legacy!

Or, if a right successive you declare

When worms, for ivies, intertwine my hair,

Take but this Poesy that now followeth

My clayey best with sullen servile breath,

Made then your happy freedman by testating death.