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My noble friend you challenge me to write	A
To you in verse and often you recite	A
My promise to you and to send you newes	B
As 'tis a thing I very seldome vse	B
And I must write of State if to Madrid	C
A thing our Proclamations here forbid	C
And that word State such Latitude doth beare	D
As it may make me very well to feare	D
To write nay speake at all these let you know	E
Your power on me yet not that I will showe	F
The loue I beare you in that lofty height	A
So cleere expression or such words of weight	G
As into Spanish if they were translated	H
Might make the Poets of that Realme amated	H
Yet these my least were but that you extort	H
These numbers from me when I should report	H
In home spunne prose in good plaine honest words	B
The newes our wofull England vs affords	B
The Muses here sit sad and mute the while	I
A sort of swine vnseasonably defile	I
Those sacred springs which from the by clift hill	I
Dropt their pure Nectar into euery quill	I
In this with State I hope I doe not deale	I
This onely tends the Muses common weale	I
What canst thou hope or looke for from his pen	J
Who liues with beasts though in the shapes of men	J
And what a poore few are we honest still	I
And dare to be so when all the world is ill	I
I finde this age of our markt with this Fate	H
That honest men are still precipitate	H
Vnder base villaines which till th' earth can vent	H
This her last brood and wholly hath them spent	H
Shall be so then in reuolution shall	I
Vertue againe arise by vices fall	I
But that shall I not see neither will I	K
Maintaine this as one doth a Prophesie	B
That our King Iames to Rome shall surely goe	E
And from his chaire the Pope shall ouerthrow	D
But O this world is so giuen vp to hell	I
That as the old Giants which did once rebell	I
Against the Gods so this now liuing race	B
Dare sin yet stand and Ieere heauen in the face	B
But soft my Muse and make a little stay	H
Surely thou art not rightly in thy way	H
To my good Ieffrayes was not I about	H
To write and see I suddainely am out	H
This is pure Satire that thou speak'st and I	K
Was first in hand to write an Elegie	L
To tell my countreys shame I not delight	H
But doe bemoane 't I am no Democrite	H
O God though Vertue mightily doe grieue	D
For all this world yet will I not beleeue	I
But that shees faire and louely and that she	M
So to the period of the world shall be	M
Else had she beene forsaken sure of all	I
For that so many sundry mischiefes fall	I
Vpon her dayly and so many take	N
Armes vp against her as it well might make	N
Her to forsake her nature and behind	H
To leaue no step for future time to find	H
As she had neuer beene for he that now	O
Can doe her most disgrace him they alow	I
The times chiefe Champion and he is the man	P
The prize and Palme that absolutely wanne	P
For where Kings Clossets her free seat hath bin	P
She neere the Lodge not suffered is to Inne	P
For ignorance against her stands in state	H
Like some great porter at a Pallace gate	H
So dull and barbarous lately are we growne	P
And there are some this slauery that haue sowne	P
That for mans knowledge it enough doth make	N
If he can learne to read an Almanacke	N
By whom that trash of Amadis de Gaule	I
Is held an author most authenticall	I
And things we haue like Noblemen that be	M
In little time which I haue hope to see	M
Vpon their foot clothes as the streets they ride	H
To haue their hornebookes at their girdles ti'd	H
But all their superfluity of spite	H
On vertues hand maid Poesy doth light	H
And to extirpe her all their plots they lay	I
But to her ruine they shall misse the way	I
For his alone the Monuments of wit	H
Aboue the rage of Tyrants that doe sit	H
And from their strength not one himselfe can saue	M
But they shall tryumph o'r his hated graue	O
In my conceipt friend thou didst neuer see	M
A righter Madman then thou hast of me	M
For now as Elegiack I bewaile	I
These poor base times then suddainely I raile	I
And am Satirick not that I inforce	M
My selfe to be so but euen as remorse	M
Or hate in the proud fulnesse of their hight	H
Master my fancy iust so doe I write	H
But gentle friend as soone shall I behold	H
That stone of which so many haue vs tould	H
Yet neuer any to this day could make	N
The great Elixar or to vndertake	N
The Rose crosse knowledge which is much like that	H
A Tarrying iron for fooles to labour at	H
As euer after I may hope to see	M
A plague vpon this beastly world for me	M
Wit so respected as it was of yore	D
And if hereafter any it restore	D
It must be those that yet for many a yeare	D
Shall be vnborne that must inhabit here	D
And such in vertue as shall be asham'd	H
Almost to heare their ignorant Grandsires nam'd	H
With whom so many noble spirits then liu'd	H
That were by them of all reward depriu'd	H
My noble friend I would I might haue quit	H
This age of these and that I might haue writ	H
Before all other how much the braue pen	P
Had here bin honoured of the English men	P
Goodnesse and knowledge held by them in prise	M
How hatefull to them Ignorance and vice	M
But it falls out the contrary is true	D
And so my Ieffreyes for this time adue	H

Michael Drayton

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