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Rh And though perchance by Isis or by Cam

The meditative, philosophic plant

May best luxuriate; yet some would say

That in the task of limning mortal life

A fitter preparation might be made

Beside the banks of Thames. And then again,

If I be suspect, in that I was not

A fellow of a college, how, I pray,

Will Jonson pass, or Marlowe, or the rest,

Whose measured verse treads with as proud a gait

As that which was my own? Whence did they suck

This honey that they stored? Can you recite

The vantages which each of these has had

And I had not? Or is the argument

That my Lord Verulam hath written all,

And covers in his wide-embracing self