To Robert Earl of Salisbury
LXIII. — TO ROBERT EARL OF SALISBURY. Who can consider thy right courses run, With what thy virtue on the times hath won, And not thy fortune ? who can clearly see The judgment of the king so shine in thee ; And that thou seek'st reward of thy each act, Not from the public voice, but private fact ? Who can behold all Envy so declined By constant suffering of thy equal mind ; And can to these be silent, SALISBURY, Without his, thine, and all time's injury ? Curst be his Muse, that could lie dumb, or hid To so true worth, though thou thyself forbid.