consideration, being so manifestly vrged, and grosely prouoked to defend yourselfe. But you haue ere now bene acquainted / with patience perforce: and I hope the most desperate swasher of them will one day learne to shew himself honester or wiser. And thus recommending your sweete endeuours, with your grauer studies, to the highest treasury of heauenly Muses; I right hartely take my leaue with a Sonnet of that Muse, that honoreth the Vrany of du Bartas, and yourselfe: of du Bartas elsewhere; here of him, whose excellent Pages of the French King, the Scottish King, the braue Monsieur de la Nöe, the aforesayd Lord du Bartas, Sir Philip Sidney, and sundry other worthy personages, deserue immortall commendation. I thanke him very hartely that imparted vnto me those fewe sheetes: and if all be like them, truly all is passing notable, and right singular. SONNET. Those learned _Oratours_, Roomes auncient sages, Persuasions Pith, directours of affection, The mindes chief counsail, rhetoriques perfection, The pleasaunt baulms of peace, warres fierce outrages: Sweet Grecian _Prophets_, whose smooth Muse assuages The Furies powerfull wrath, poisons infection: _Philosophers_ (by Causes due connexion, Match't with th' Effects of Nature) future ages Embrauing with rich documents of Art: / The wisest _States-men_ of calme Commonweales: The learned _Generall Councels_, which impart Diuinest laws, whose wholesome Physique Heales Both Church, and Layety: All in _one_ beholde Ennobled Arts, as Precious stones in golde. From my lodging in Holborne: this of June. 1593. Your most affectionate, _Barnabé Barnes._ Hauing perused my former Sonet, if it may please you, Sir, to do asmuch for your deare frends _Parthenophill_, and _Parthenophe_, they shall haue the desired fruite of their short exercise, and will rest beholding to your curteous acceptance: which they would be glad to reacquite in the loouingest manner they may. And so most affectionatly recommend themselues vnto your good self: whose vnblemished fame they will euermore maintaine with the best bloud of their hartes, tongues, and Pennes. We will not say, how much we long to see the whole Prayses of your two notorious enemyes, the _Asse_ and the _Foxe_. SONET. Nash, _or the confuting Gentleman_.