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On Jonson's Sejanus, 1605

Amicis, amici nostri dignissimi, dignissimis, Epigramma. D. Johannes Marstonivs.

Yee ready Friendes, spare your vnneedfull Bayes,
This worke dispairefull Enuie must euen praise:
Phœbus hath voic'd it, loud, through ecchoing skies,
Seianvs Fall shall force thy Merit rise.
For neuer English shall, or hath before
Spoake fuller grac'd. He could say much, not more.