_Scorne_ frump the meacock Verse that dares not sing,
Drouping, so like a flagging flowre in raine:
Where doth the _Vrany_ or _Fury_ ring,
That shall enfraight my stomacke with disdaine?
Shall Frend put-vp such braggardous affrontes?
Are milksop Muses such whiteliuer'd Trontes?
Shall Boy the gibbet be of Writers all,
And none hang-vp the gibbet on the wall?
If / dreery hobbling Ryme hart-broken be,
And quake for dread of Danters scarecrow Presse:
Shrew Prose, thy pluckcrow implements addresse,
And pay the hangman pen his double fee.
Be Spite a Sprite, a Termagant, a Bugg:
Truth feares no ruth, and can the Great Diu'll tugg.
----_Ultrix accincta flagello._
_Her old Comedy, newly intituled._
My Prose is resolute, as Beuis sworde:
_March rampant beast in formidable hide:_
_Supererogation Squire on cockhorse ride:_
Zeale shapes an aunswer to the blouddiest worde.
If nothing can _the booted Souldiour_ tame,
Nor Ryme, nor Prose, nor Honesty, nor Shame,
But _Swash_ will still his trompery aduaunce,
Il'e leade the _gagtooth'd fopp_ a new-founde daunce.
Deare howers were euer cheape to pidling me:
I knew a glorious, and brauing Knight,
That would be deem'd a truculentall wight:
Of him I scrauld a dowty Comedy.
_Sir Bombarduccio_ was his cruell name:
But _Gnasharduccio_ the sole brute of _Fame_.
_L'Enuoy._
See, how He brayes, and fumes at me poore lasse,
That must immortalise the killcowe _Asse_. /
_To the Right Worshipfvll, his especiall deare frend,
M. Gabriell Haruey, Doctour of Lawe._
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