For brave comportment, wit without offence, <br />Words fully flowing, yet of influence, <br />Thou art that man of men, the man alone <br />Worthy the public admiration; <br />Who with thine own eyes read'st what we do write, <br />And giv'st our numbers euphony and weight; <br />Tell'st when a verse springs high; how understood <br />To be, or not, born of the royal blood <br />What state above, what symmetry below, <br />Lines have, or should have, thou the best can show:-- <br />For which, my Charles, it is my pride to be, <br />Not so much known, as to be loved of thee:-- <br />Long may I live so, and my wreath of bays <br />Be less another's laurel, than thy praise.<br /><br />Robert Herrick<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-his-honoured-and-most-ingenious-friendmr-char/