Epigram 54. To my much honoured Cousin Sir Francis Burdet Baronet

The honest Poet, Michael Drayton, I
Must ever honour for your Amity,
He brought us first acquainted; which good turn
Made me to fix an Elegie on's urn:
Else I might well have spar'd my humble stuffe;
His own sweet Muse renowning him enough.
In Warwick-shire your house and mine stand neer,
I therefore wish we both were setled there;
So we might often meet, and I (thereby)
Your excel'nt conversation oft enjoy:
What good should you get by it? truly none:
The profit would acrue to me alone.