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Though Poets have a licence which they use

As th' ancient priviledge of their free Muse;

Yet whether this be leave enough for me

To write, great Bard, an Eulogie for thee:

Or whether to commend thy Worke, will stand

Both with the Lawes of Verse and of the Land,

Were to put doubts might raise a discontent

Between the Muses and the –

I'le none of that. There's desperate wits that be

(As their immortall Lawrell) Thunder-free;

Whose personall vertues, 'bove the Lawes of Fate,

Supply the roome of personall estate: