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To Endimion Porter.

I gave, when last I was about to die;The Poets of this Isle a Legacie;Each so much wealth, as a long union bringsT'industrious States, or Victorie to Kings:So much as Hope's clos'd Eies, could wish to see,Or tall Ambition reach; I gave them thee.But as rich Men, who in their sicknesse mourneThat they must goe, and never more returne,To be glad Heires unto themselves, to ⟨take⟩Againe, what they unwillingly forsake;As these bequeath, their treasure, when they dye,Not out of love, but sad necessitie;

So

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