Poems: by Michaell Draiton Esquire

Sonnet 28.

TO such as saie, thy loue I ouer-prise, And doe not sticke to terme my praises follie, Against these folkes that thinke themselues so wise, I thus appose my force of reason wholie, Though I giue more, then well affords my state, In which expense the most suppose me vaine, Would yeeld them nothing at the casiest rate, Yet at this price, returnes me trebble gaine, The value not vnskilfull how to vse, And I giue much, because I gaine thereby, I that thus take, or they that thus refuse, Whether are these deceiued then, or I? In eu'rie thing I holde this maxime still, The circumstance doth make it good or ill.