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The Shorter Poems of Ralph Knevet

A Critical Edition by Amy M. Charles

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[4] To any to whom I write.

Blame not my Muse, thou that dost find thy name
Not Marshal'd here, as thou wouldst have the same:
No blemish tis to thy repute: for (know it)
I act no Herald here (Sir) but a Poet.