Part soe wth myne owne Candor, lett me rather p. 556 Live poorely on those toyes I would not father Not knowne beyond A Player or A Man That does pursue the course that I have ran Ere soe grow famous: yet wth any paine Or honest industry could I obteyne A noble Favorer, I might write and doo Like others of more name and gett one too Or els my Genius is false. I know That Johnson much of what he has does owe 50 To you and to your familie, and is never Slow to professe it, nor had Fletcher ever Such Reputation, and credit nonne But by his honord Patron, Huntington Unimitable Spencer ne’re had been Soe famous for his matchlesse Fairie Queene Had he not found a Spencer Sydney to preferr [_sic_] His plaine way in his Shepheards Calender Nay Virgills selfe (or Martiall does lye) Could hardly frame a poore Gnatts Elegie 60 Before Mecænas cherisht him; and then He streight conceiv’d Æneas and the men That found out Italic Those are Presidents(586) I cite wth reverence: my lowe intents Looke not soe high, yet some worke I might frame That should nor wrong my duty nor your Name. p. 557 Were but your Lopp pleas’d to cast an eye Of favour on my trodd downe povertie How ever I confesse myselfe to be Ever most bound for your best charitie 70 To others that feed on it, and will pay My prayers wth theirs that as yu doe yu may Live long, belov’d and honor’d doubtles then Soe cleere a life will find a worthier Penn. For me I rest assur’d besides the glory T’wold make a Poet but to write your story. 76 Phill: Messinger. p. 557 II A New yeares Guift presented to my Lady and M:rs the then Lady Katherine Stanhop now Countesse of Chesterfield. By Phill: Messinger. Madame Before I ow’d to you the name Of Servant, to your birth, your worth your fame I was soe, and t’was fitt since all stand bound To honour Vertue in meane persons found Much more in you, that as borne great, are good Wch is more then to come of noble blood Or be A Hastings; it being too well knowne p. 558