Sonet 3

Many there be excelling in this kind,

Whose well trick'd rimes with all inuention swell,

Let each commend as best shall like his minde,

Some _Sidney_, _Constable_, some _Daniell_.

That thus theyr names familiarly I sing,

Let none think them disparaged to be,

Poore men with reuerence may speake of a King,

And so may these be spoken of by mee;

My wanton verse nere keepes one certaine stay,

But now, at hand; then, seekes inuention far,

And with each little motion runnes astray,

Wilde, madding, iocond, and irreguler;

Like me that lust, my honest merry rimes,

Nor care for Criticke, nor regard the times.

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