<p>That's Love in earnest, which is constant found,<lb/> When Friends are in Affliction, or in Bands ;<lb/> And, their Affection merits to be crown'd,<lb/> Whose hearts are fastned where they joyne their hands.<lb/> Tis easie to be friendly, where wee see<lb/> A Complement or two will serve the turne;<lb/> Or, where the kindnesse may requited bee;<lb/> Or, when the charge is with a trifle borne.<lb/> It is as easie too, for him to spend<lb/> At once, the full Revenues of a yeare,<lb/> In Cates, for entertainment of his Friend,<lb/> Who thinkes his glorie, is expensive-cheere :<lb/> For, 'tis his pleasure; and, if none should come<lb/> Like fashionable-Friends, for him to court,<lb/> Hee would with Rogues, and Canters, fill the Roome,<lb/> Or, such as should abuse, and flout him for't.<lb/> But, hard it is, to suffer, or to spend<lb/> For him (though worthy) that's of meane estate,<lb/> Unlikely our occasions to befriend,<lb/> Or, one unable to remunerate.<lb/> Few men are liberall, whom neither Lust,<lb/> Vaine glorie, Prodigalitie, nor Pride,<lb/> Doth forward into foolish Bountie thrust;<lb/> As may, by Observation bee espide.<lb/> For, when a slender Bountie would relieve<lb/> Their vertuous Friend, whose wants to them are knowne,<lb/> To their Buffoone, a Knights estate they'l give;<lb/> And, thinke on t'other trifles ill-bestowne.<lb/> Yet, this Ile say; and, give the Devill his due;<lb/> These Friends, are to their lusts, and humours, true.<lb/> </p>

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Two joined hands holding a flaming heart with a crown; in the background a man escapes through a window, lowered by a friend(?)

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<p>That's Friendship, and true-love, indeed,<lb/> Which firme abides, in time of need.</p>

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