Of his desertes did glister more than mine.
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To th’end therefore his light should bee the lesse,
I sliely sought all shiftes to put him[345] out:
But as the poyze that would the palme tree presse[346]
Doth cause the bowes sprede larger rounde about,
So spite and enuy causeth glory sprout,
And aye the more the top is ouertrode,
The deeper doth the sound roote sprede abroade.
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