To his Cousin, Master Ambrose Hargreves health.
Whether a secret influence from above,
Or supernaturall motion of the mind,
May seeme good-liking, and affection move,
Among those men whom kindred had combind:
Or whether nature, Cousin, us inclin'd,
So highly to esteeme affinitie,
I cannot easly judge, nor causes finde,
Why we so favour consanguinity.
But cert's the worke is from divinitie.
Or supernaturall motion of the mind,
May seeme good-liking, and affection move,
Among those men whom kindred had combind:
Or whether nature, Cousin, us inclin'd,
So highly to esteeme affinitie,
I cannot easly judge, nor causes finde,
Why we so favour consanguinity.
But cert's the worke is from divinitie.
And whence this inward motion doth arise,
Is for my purpose needlesse to decide,
Sithence we finde it true, whom bloud alies,
In league of friendship commonly abide,
And in the band of love are nearer ty'de:
Nethlesse when other causes beare a sway,
To move good will, it cannot be denide,
But then it is more firme, as is the day,
Brighter when Phœbus doth his beames display.
Is for my purpose needlesse to decide,
Sithence we finde it true, whom bloud alies,
In league of friendship commonly abide,
And in the band of love are nearer ty'de:
Nethlesse when other causes beare a sway,
To move good will, it cannot be denide,
But then it is more firme, as is the day,
Brighter when Phœbus doth his beames display.
Yet since first kindred doth command as due,
An interchange of amity and love,
Much, I confesse, for this I favour you,
In whom the gifts of wit and learning move,
An interchange of amity and love,
Much, I confesse, for this I favour you,
In whom the gifts of wit and learning move,
Which
