To the right worshipfull, my singular good frend, Master Gabriell Harvey, Doctor of the Lawes. HARVEY, the happy above happiest men I read: that, sitting like a looker-on Of this worldes stage, doest note with critique pen The sharpe dislikes of each condition: And, as one carelesse of suspition, Ne fawnest for the favour of the great; Ne fearest foolish reprehension Of faulty men, which daunger to thee threat; But freely doest of what thee list entreat, Like a great lord of peerelesse liberty; Lifting the good up to high Honours seat, And the evill damning evermore to dy. For life and death is in thy doomeful writing: So thy renowme lives ever by endighting. Dublin, this xviij. of July, 15'6. Your devoted friend, during life, | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRINGTIDE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ON THE PROPOSAL TO ERECT A MONUMENT IN ENGLAND TO LORD BYRON by EMMA LAZARUS CHRISTMAS CAROL by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR TO A WESTERN BOY by WALT WHITMAN ANIMAL TRANQUILITY AND DECAY; A SKETCH by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |