To Robert Earl of Salisbury

XLIII. ? TO ROBERT EARL OF SALISBURY.       What need hast thou of me, or of my muse,      Whose actions so themselves do celebrate ? Which should thy country's love to speak refuse,      Her foes enough would fame thee in their hate. Tofore, great men were glad of poets ; now,       I, not the worst, am covetous of thee : Yet dare not to my thought least hope allow      Of adding to thy fame ; thine may to me, When in my book men read but CECIL'S name,      And what I write thereof find far, and free From servile flattery, common poets' shame,      As thou stand'st clear of the necessity.

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