To Sir Walter Aston, Knight Of The Honourable Order Of The Bath, And My Most Worthy Patron
I will not striue m' inuention to inforce, With needlesse words your eyes to entertaine, T' obserue the formall ordinarie course That euerie one so vulgarly doth faine: Our interchanged and deliberate choise, Is with more firme and true election sorted, Then stands in censure of the common voice. That with light humor fondly is transported: Nor take I patterne of another's praise, Then what my pen may constantly avow. Nor walke more publique nor obscurer waies Then vertue bids, and iudgement will allow; So shall my tone, and best endeuours serue you, And still shall studie, still so to deserue you. Michaell Drayton.
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