Excerpt from The Humours of the Court and Other Poems F. Your secret's safe with me. I Should be hurt To think that there was any man on earth Whom you could trust before me and if my place Here in the court can help you in your love, Reckon upon me. R. I do, and hope some day It may be in my good fortune to repay you For such a favour. F. Favour what a word To an old friend R. Nay, do not misconstrue me. E. I own I am jealous, Richard, of the time We have lived apart. There was a touch Of fear Mixed with my joy, when you broke in upon me This morning, that the ten years had not spared me. You find me changed? Say, doth my countenance Wear the smug livery of the world? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.