To my kinde and ingenious pupill, Mr. Henry Holeroft.

E PIG . 242.

You had bene better gone ten miles about,
Then come within my study, when it was;
For you (good Sir) no sooner were gone out
But straight on you a verdit I did passe:
I said (yet to my selfe) you patient were
To heare my Muse recount her idle dreames:
I said you did like Phœbus' ympe appeare,
Because you lou'd the Heliconian streames
This said I, and much more to this effect:
And in effect this argues you to bee
Artes friend by vertue of your intellect;
Then Arte is strongly bound to honor thee:
 But if I breake that bond through ignorance
 Yet is it due by that recognizance.