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TO HIS BROTHER IN LAW MASTER JOHN WINGFIELD, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: For being comely, consonant, and free
Last Line: Wert thou a winckfield onely, not a brother.


For being comely, consonant, and free
To most of men, but most of all to me:
For so decreeing, that thy clothes expence
Keepes still within a just circumference:
Then for contriving so to loade thy Board,
As that the Messes ne'r o'r-laid the Lord:
Next for Ordaining, that thy words not swell
To any one unsober syllable.
These I co'd praise thee for beyond another,
Wert thou a Winckfield onely, not a Brother.





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