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To the Right Honorable Sir Francis Bacon Knight. &c.

Epi. 259.

Thi' admired Sire was Wit & Wisdomes Source,
And thou his Sonne, resemblest him in those:
Thy Hand is open; close is thy Discourse:
For; much in few, thy thy Iudgement doth inclose.
But, when thou art disposed to set ope
A Flood of Eloquence, to Whast all Eares
With head-long sway) vnto thine vtmost scope,
When, stubborn'st Rocks of L{e}ts it ouerbeares:
So, thou do'st grace the Law, as it doth Thee;
But, of all Lawyers, Thou alone for me.