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CXIII. To Sir Thomas Overbury.
So Phœbus make me worthy of his bayes,As but to speake thee, Overbury, is praise:
So, where thou liv'st, thou mak'st life understood!
Where, what makes others great, doth keep thee good!
I think, the Fate of Court thy comming crav'd,
That the wit there, and manners might be sav'd:
For since, what ignorance, what pride is fled!
And letters, and humanity in the stead!
Repent thee not of thy faire precedent,
Could make such men, and such a place repent:
Nor may' any feare, to lose of their degree,
Who'in such ambition can but follow thee.
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