To your unpattern'd self, were to require

A language only form'd in the desire

Of him that writes. It is the common fate

Of greatest duties, to evaporate

In silent meaning, as we often see

Fires by their too much fuel smother'd be:

Small obligations may find vent, and speak,

10When greater the unable debtor break.

And such are mine to you, whose favour's store

Hath made me poorer then I was before;