Fall then to work in thy old age agen, Take up thy trug and trowel, gentle Ben, Let plays alone; or if thou need'st will write, And thrust thy feeble muse into the light; Let Lowen cease, and Taylor scorn to touch, The loathed stage, for thou hast made it such. These lines are without wit, and without poetry; they contain a mean reflexion on Ben's original employment, of which he had no occasion to be ashamed; but he was paid in kind, and Ben answers him with equal virulence, and in truth it cannot be said with more wit or poetry, for it is difficult to determine which author's verses are most wretched. Shall the prosperity of a pardon still Secure thy railing rhymes, infamous Gill, At libelling? shall no star chamber peers, Pillory, nor whip, nor want of ears, All which thou hast incurred deservedly, Nor degradation from the ministry To be the Denis of thy father's school, Keep in thy bawling wit, thou bawling fool. Thinking to stir me, thou hast lost thy end, I'll laugh at thee, poor wretched Tyke, go send Thy boltant muse abroad, and teach it rather A tune to drown the ballads of thy father. For thou hast nought to cure his fame, But tune and noise, and eccho of his shame. A rogue by statute, censured to be whipt, Cropt, branded, flit, neck-flockt: go, you are stript. 25. Masque, at the Lord Viscount Hadington's Marriage at Court, on Shrove Tuesday at night, 1608. 26. Masque of Augurs, with several Antimasques, presented on Twelfth Night, 1608. 27. Masque of Owls, at Kenelworth, presented by the Ghost of Captain Cox, mounted on his Hobby-Horse, 1626. 28. Masque of Queens celebrated from the House of Fame, by the Queen of Great Britain with her Ladies at Whitehall, 1609. 29. Masque, presented in the house of lord Hay by several noblemen, 1617, for the French ambassador. 30. Metamorphosed Gypsies, a Masque, thrice presented to King James, 1621. 31. Mercury vindicated from the Alchymist's, at Court. 32. Mortimer's Fall, a Tragedy, or rather a fragment, being just begun and left imperfect by his death. 33. Neptune's Triumph for the return of Albion, in a Masque, at court. 34. News from the New World discovered in the Moon, presented 1620 at court. 35. Oberon, the Fairy Prince, a Masque, of Prince Henry's. 36. Pan's Anniversary, or the Shepherd's Holiday, a Masque, 1625. 37. Pleasure reconciled to Virtue, a Masque, presented at court, 1619. 38. Poetaster, or his Arraignment, a comical Satire, first acted in the year 1601. 39. Queen's Masques, the first of Blackness, presented 1605; the second of Beauty, was presented at the same court 1608. 40. Sad Shepherd, or a Tale of Robin Hood, a Pastoral.