R. C.

When too much zeal doth fire devotion,

Love is not love, but superstition:

Even so in civil duties, when we come

Too oft, we are not kind, but troublesome.

Yet as the first is not idolatry,

So is the last but grieved industry:

And such was mine, whose strife to honour you

By overplus, hath rob’d you of your due.

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