Classic Poem

To my truly-honest worthy friend Iohn Barlow Esquire

If honesty (true Honors playner name)
May put thee in the regester of Fame;
Then I from thence, may take authority
There to enrole thee meritoriously
Thy minde is free from all that thwarts the same;
Whose noble nature dignifies thy name:
Then should I wrong thee being my belou'd,
Should I not praise that which is so approud.