TO SIR HENRY GOODYER

When I would know thee, Goodyer, my thought looks

Upon thy well-made choice of friends, and books;

Then do I love thee, and behold thy ends

In making thy friends books, and thy books friends:

Now must I give thy life and deed the voice

Attending such a study, such a choice;

Where, though it be love that to thy praise doth move,

It was a knowledge that begat that love.

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