Great Britain -- History -- Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources
For where I meant the king by name of hog,
I only alluded to his badge the bore:
To _Louel’s_ name I added more our dog,
Because most dogs haue borne that name of yore:
These metaphors I vsde[1741] with other more,
As cat, and rat, the halfe names of the rest,
To hide the sence that they so wrongly wrest.
38.
I pray you now what treason finde you heare?
Enough, you rubd the gilty on the gaule,
Both sence and names doe note them very neare:
I graunt that was the chiefe cause of my faule,
Yet can you finde therein no treason at all:
There is no worde against the prince, or state,
No harme to them whom all the realme did hate.
39.
But sith the gilty alwayes are suspicious,
And dread the ruin that must sue by reason,
They cannot choose but count theyr counsayle vicious
That note theyr faults, and therefore call it treason:
All grace and goodnes with the lewde is geason:
This is the cause why they good thinges doe wrest,
Whereas the good take ill things to the best.
40.
And therefore, _Baldwine_, boldly to the good
Rebuke their fault, so[1742] shalt thou purchase thankes:
As for the bad, thou shalt but moue their[1743] moode,
Though pleasauntly thou touch their naughty prankes:[1744]
Warne poets all, no wise to[1745] passe the bankes
Of Hellicon, but keepe within the bound:[1746]
So shall their freedome to[1747] no harme redound.[1748][1749]
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