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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MILDMAY, EARLE OF WESTMORELAND, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are a lord, an earle, nay more, a man
Last Line: Differs not much from drowzie slothfullnesse.


You are a Lord, an Earle, nay more, a Man,
Who writes sweet Numbers well as any can:
If so, why then are not These Verses hurld,
Like Sybels Leaves, throughout the ample world?
What is a Jewell if it be not set
Forth by a Ring, or some rich Carkanet?
But being so; then the beholders cry,
See, see a Jemme (as rare as Baelus eye.)
Then publick praise do's runne upon the Stone,
For a most rich, a rare, a precious One.
Expose your jewels then unto the view,
That we may praise Them, or themselves prize You.
Vertue conceal'd (with Horace you'l confesse)
Differs not much from drowzie slothfullnesse.





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