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Friend if you thinke my Papers may supplie	A
You with some strange omitted Noueltie	B
Which others Letters yet haue left vntould	B
You take me off before I can take hould	B
Of you at all I put not thus to Sea	C
For two monthes Voyage to Virginia	D
With newes which now a little something here	E
But will be nothing ere it can come there	F
I feare as I doe Stabbing this word State	B
I dare not speake of the Palatinate	B
Although some men make it their hourely theame	G
And talke what's done in Austria and in Beame	G
I may not so what Spinola intends	H
Nor with his Dutch which way Prince Maurice bends	H
To other men although these things be free	C
Yet GEORGE they must be misteries to mee	C
I scarce dare praise a vertuous friend that's dead	B
Lest for my lines he should be censured	B
It was my hap before all other men	I
To suffer shipwrack by my forward pen	I
When King IAMES entred at which ioyfull time	G
I taught his title to this Ile in rime	G
And to my part did all the Muses win	J
With high pitch P ans to applaud him in	J
When cowardise had tyed vp euery tongue	K
And all stood silent yet for him I sung	K
And when before by danger I was dar'd	B
I kick'd her from me nor a iot I spar'd	B
Yet had not my cleere spirit in Fortunes scorne	J
Me aboue earth and her afflictions borne	J
He next my God on whom I built my trust	B
Had left me troden lower then the dust	B
But let this passe in the extreamest ill	A
Apollo's brood must be couragious still	A
Let Pies and Dawes sit dumb before their death	L
Onely the Swan sings at the parting breath	L
And worthy GEORGE by industry and vse	H
Let's see what lines Virginia will produce	H
Goe on with OVID as you haue begunne	J
With the first fiue Bookes let your numbers run	J
Glib as the former so shall it liue long	M
And doe much honour to the English tongue	K
Intice the Muses thither to repaire	C
Intreat them gently trayne them to that ayre	C
For they from hence may thither hap to fly	A
T'wards the sad time which but to fast doth hie	N
For Poesie is follow'd with such spight	B
By groueling drones that neuer raught her height	B
That she must hence she may no longer staye	O
The driery fates prefixed haue the day	B
Of her departure which is now come on	J
And they command her straight wayes to be gon	J
That bestiall heard so hotly her pursue	H
And to her succour there be very few	H
Nay none at all her wrongs that will redresse	H
But she must wander in the wildernesse	H
Like to the woman which that holy IOHN	J
Beheld in Pathmos in his vision	J
As th' English now so did the stiff neckt Iewes	H
Their noble Prophets vtterly refuse	H
And of these men such poore opinions had	B
They counted Esay and Ezechiel mad	B
When Ieremy his Lamentations writ	B
They thought the Wizard quite out of his wit	B
Such sots they were as worthily to ly	A
Lock't in the chaines of their captiuity	B
Knowledge hath still her Eddy in her Flow	A
So it hath beene and it will still be so	A
That famous Greece where learning flourisht most	B
Hath of her muses long since left to boast	B
Th' vnlettered Turke and rude Barbarian trades	H
Where HOMER sang his lofty Iliads	H
And this vaste volume of the world hath taught	B
Much may to passe in little time be brought	B
As if to Symptoms we may credit giue	P
This very time wherein we two now liue	A
Shall in the compasse wound the Muses more	C
Then all the old English ignorance before	C
Base Balatry is so belou'd and sought	B
And those braue numbers are put by for naught	B
Which rarely read were able to awake	Q
Bodyes from graues and to the ground to shake	Q
The wandring clouds and to our men at armes	H
'Gainst pikes and muskets were most powerfull charmes	H
That but I know insuing ages shall	A
Raise her againe who now is in her fall	A
And out of dust reduce our scattered rimes	H
Th' reiected iewels of these slothfull times	H
Who with the Muses would misspend an hower	C
But let blind Gothish Barbarisme deuoure	C
These feuerous Dogdays blest by no record	B
But to be euerlastingly abhord	B
If you vouchsafe rescription stuffe your quill	A
With naturall bountyes and impart your skill	A
In the description of the place that I	A
May become learned in the soyle thereby	A
Of noble Wyats health and let me heare	C
The Gouernour and how our people there	C
Increase and labour what supplyes are sent	B
Which I confesse shall giue me much content	B
But you may saue your labour if you please	H
To write to me ought of your Sauages	H
As sauage slaues be in great Britaine here	C
As any one that you can shew me there	C
And though for this Ile say I doe not thirst	B
Yet I should like it well to be the first	B
Whose numbers hence into Virginia flew	A
So noble Sandis for this time adue	B

Michael Drayton

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