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At this period, Fowler appears to have been a great favourite at court. He prefixed a panegyrical sonnet to, a composition of James VI. who has performed a similar office for Fowler's, in a strain of versification, which for vigour and fluency is vastly superior to his common style, as the reader will perceive: