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XCIX. To The Same [Sir Thomas Roe].
That thou hast kept thy love, encreast thy will,Better'd thy trust to letters; that thy skill;
Hast taught thy selfe worthy thy pen to tread,
And that to write things worthy to be read:
How much of great example wert thou, Roe,
If time to facts, as unto men would owe?
But much it now availes, what's done, of whom:
The selfe-same deeds, as diversly they come,
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And even the praisers judgement suffers so.
Well, though thy name lesse than our great ones bee,
Thy fact is more: let truth encourage thee.
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