To Sir Walter Aston

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Title:     To Sir Walter Aston
Author: Michael Drayton [More Titles by Drayton]

To Sir Walter Aston, Knight of the Honourable order of the Bath, and my most worthy Patron.

I will not strive m' invention to inforce,
With needless words your eyes to entertain,
T' observe the formall ordinary course
That every one so vulgarly doth faine:
Our interchanged and deliberate choice,
Is with more firm and true election sorted,
Then stands in censure of the common voice.
That with light humor fondly is transported:
Nor take I pattern of another's praise,
Then what my pen may constantly avow.
Nor walk more public nor obscurer waies
Then vertue bids, and iudgement will allow;
So shall my tone, and best endeuours serve you,
And still shall study, still so to deserve you.

Michaell Drayton.

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Michael Drayton's poem: To Sir Walter Aston

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