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Tet this, and much more, is most justly due : 

 Where what I write as elegant as true, 

 To the best friend I now or ever knew. 



But, my dear friend, 'tis so, that you and I, 



By a condition of mortality, 



With all this great, and more proud world, must die . 



In which estate, I ask no more of fame, 



Nor other monument of honour claim, 



Than that of your true friend to advance my name. 



And if your many merits shall have bred 

 An abler pen, to write your life when dead; 

 I think an honester can not be read. 



CHARLES COTTON. 



Jan. 17, 1672. 



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