To M. John Davies, My Good Friend
Svch men as hold intelligence with Letters,
And in that nice and Narrow way of Verse
As oft they lend, so oft they must be Debters,
If with the Muses they will haue commerce
Seldome at Stawles, me, this way men rehearse ,
To mine Inferiours, nor vnto my Betters:
He stales his Lines that so doeth them disperse
I am so free, I loue not Golden-fetters
And many Lines fore Writers, be but Setters
To them which cheate with Papers; which doth pierse .
Our Credits: when we shew our selues Abetters:
To those that wrong our knowledge: we rehearse
Often (my good Iohn; and I loue) thy Letters;
Which lend me Credit, as I lend my Verse.
And in that nice and Narrow way of Verse
As oft they lend, so oft they must be Debters,
If with the Muses they will haue commerce
Seldome at Stawles, me, this way men rehearse ,
To mine Inferiours, nor vnto my Betters:
He stales his Lines that so doeth them disperse
I am so free, I loue not Golden-fetters
And many Lines fore Writers, be but Setters
To them which cheate with Papers; which doth pierse .
Our Credits: when we shew our selues Abetters:
To those that wrong our knowledge: we rehearse
Often (my good Iohn; and I loue) thy Letters;
Which lend me Credit, as I lend my Verse.
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