To his Friend Master R. L., In Praise of Music and Poetry

If music and sweet poetry agree,As they must needs (the sister and the brother),Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touchUpon the lute doth ravish human sense;Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence. Thou lov'st to hear the sweet melodious soundThat Ph{oe}bus' lute (the queen of music), makes;And I in deep delight am chiefly drown'dWhenas himself to singing he betakes. One god is god of both (as poets feign), One knight loves both, and both in thee remain.