In blood as study: And my carefull love

Did never action worth my name, approve

Which serv'd not thee. Nor did we ere contend,

But who should be best patterne of a friend.

Who read thee, praise thy fancie, and admire

Thee burning with so high and pure a fire,

As reaches heaven it selfe. But I who know

Thy soule religious to her ends, where grow

No sinnes by art or custome, boldly can

Stile thee more than good Poet, a good man.