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TO HIS TRUE FRIEND, THE AUTHOR, MASTER SHAKERLY MARMION by THOMAS NABBES

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT NEED I RACK THE LIMBS OF MY WEAK MUSE
Last Line: READS BUT THE TITLE, AND THY NAME BELOW.
Subject(s): MARMION, SHAKERLEY (1602-1639);
WHAT need I rack the limbs of my weak Muse,
To fill a page might serve for better use?
Then make some squint-ey'd reader censure me
A flatterer, for justly praising thee?
It is enough, (and in that cause's right
Many thy former works may boldly fight)
He for a good one must this piece allow,
Reads but the title, and thy name below.



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