With this high worth which of Bellama's told.

And well my knowledge can inform my pen

To raise a spite in women, love in men.

And if the Fates befriend me that my thread

30Outmeasures yours (your worth asleep, not dead,

For such worth cannot die) I then will say

You equall'd her and was—(but, truth, away).

If these dull melancholy, grief, or sleep,

From any prone thereto at distance keep;

Let unto you their tribute thanks be paid