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Renowned Lithgow by his brave attempt

Hath eas’d your bodies of a world of toyles.

Not like to some who wrongfully retayne

Gods rarest gifts, within themselves ingrost,

But what thou hast attain’d with care and cost.

Thou yeelds it gratis, to the world againe.

Upon the bankes of wonder-breeding Clide,

To these designes thy heart did first assent

One way, indeed, to give thy selfe content,

But more to satisfie a world beside.

Thy first attempt in excellence of worth,

Beyond the reach of my conceit’s confinde,

But this thy second Pilgrimage of minde,

Where all thy paynes are to the world set forth;

In Subject, Frame, in Methode, Phrase, and Stile,

May match the most unmatched in this Ile:

But this renownes thee most, t’have still possest,

A constant Heart, within a wandring Brest.

Robert Allen.

To his kind friend and Countreyman W. Lithgow.

Thy well adventur’d Pilgrimage I prayse,

Although perform’d with perrill and with paine,

Which thou hast pen’d, in more than vulgar phrase

So curiously, so sweetly, smooth, and plaine,