And this verse in disprayse of the Courtiers life following the Court of Rome. _Vita palatina dura est animaque ruina._ And these written by a noble learned man. _Ire redire fequi regum sublimia castra Eximiius status est, sed non sic itur ad astra._ And this other which to the great injurie of all women was written (no doubt by some forlorne lover, or else some old malicious Monke) for one woman's sake blemishing the whole sex. _Fallere stere nere mentari nilque tacere Haec qumque vere statuit Deus in muliere._ If I might have bene his Iudge, I would have had him for his labour serued as _Orpheus_ was by the women of Thrace. His eyes to be picket out with pinnes for his so deadly belying of them, or worse handled if worse could be deuised. But will ye see how God raised a revenger for the silly innocent women, for about the same ryming age came an honest civill Courtier somewhat bookish, and wrate these verses against the whole rable of Monkes. _O Monachi vestri stomachi sunt amphor a Bacchi Vos estos Deis est restes turpissima pestis._ Anon after came your secular Priestes as jolly rymers as the rest, who being sore agreeued with their Pope _Calixtus_, for that he had enjoyned them from their wives,& railed as fast against him. _O bone Calixte totus mundus perodit te Quondam Presbiteri, poterant vxoribus vti Hoc destruxisti, postquam tu Papa fursti._ Thus what in writing of rymes and registring of lyes was the Clergy of that fabulous age wholly occupied. We finde some but very few of these ryming verses among the Latines of the ciuiller ages, and those rather hapning by chaunce then of any purpose in the writer, as this _Distick_ among the disportes of _Ouid_. _Quot coem stellas tot habet tua Roma puellas Pascua quotque haedos tot habet tua Roma Cynedos,_ The posteritie taking pleasure in this manner of _Simphonie_ had leasure as it seemes to deuise many other knackes in their versifying that the auncient and ciuill Poets had not vfed before, whereof one was to make euery word of a verse to begin with the same letter, as did _Hugobald_ the Monke who made a large poeme to the honour of _Carolus Caluus_, euery word beginning with _C._ which was the first letter of the king's name thus. _Carmina clarisona Caluis cantate camenae._ And this was thought no small peece of cunning, being in deed a matter of some difficultie to finde out so many wordes beginning with one letter as might make a iust volume, though in truth it were but a phantasticall deuise and to no purpose at all more then to make them harmonicall to the rude eares of those barbarous ages.