_Hic notat purpuraria arte intextas literas Romanas in amictibus post ambulonum[574] ante et retro._ For before on your brest, and behind on your back, In Romaine letters I neuer founde lack: In your crosse rowe nor Christ crosse you spede, Your Pater noster, your Aue, nor your Crede. Who soeuer that tale vnto you tolde, He saith vntruly, to say that I would Controlle the cognisaunce of noble men Either by language or with my pen. _Pædagogium meum de sublimiori Minerva constat esse: ergo, &c._ My scole is more solem and somwhat more haute Than to be founde in any such faute. _Pædagogium meum male sanos maledicos sibilis complosisque manibus[575] explodit, &c._ My scoles are not for vnthriftes vntaught, For frantick faitours half mad and half straught; But my learning is of an other degree To taunt theim like liddrous, lewde as thei bee. _Laxent ergo antennam elationis suæ inflatam vento vanitatis._ li. ille, _&c._ For though some be lidder, and list for to rayle, Yet to lie vpon me they can not preuayle: Then let them vale a bonet of their proud sayle, And of their taunting toies rest with il hayle. _Nobilitati ignobilis cedat vilitas, &c._ There is no noble man wil iudge in me Any such foly to rest or to be: I care muche the lesse what euer they say, For tunges vntayde be renning astray; But yet I may say safely, so many wel lettred Embraudred, enlasid together, and fettred, And so little learning, so lewdly alowed, What fault find ye herein but may be auowed? But ye are so full of vertibilite, And of frenetyke folabilite, 10 And of melancoly mutabilite, That ye would coarte and enforce me Nothing to write, but hay the gy of thre, And I to suffre you lewdly to ly Of me with your language full of vilany! _Sicut novacula[576] acuta fecisti dolum._ Ubi s. Malicious tunges, though they haue no bones, Are sharper then swordes, sturdier then stones. _Lege Philostratum de vita Tyanæi Apollonii._ Sharper then raysors that shaue and cut throtes, More stinging then scorpions that stang Pharaotis. _Venenum aspidum sub labiis eorum._ Ps. More venemous and much more virulent Then any poysoned tode or any serpent. _Quid peregrinis egemus exemplis? ad domestica recurramus, &c._ li. ille. Such tunges vnhappy hath made great diuision In realmes, in cities, by suche fals abusion; Of fals fickil tunges suche cloked collusion Hath brought nobil princes to extreme confusion. _Quicquid loquantur, ut effœminantur, ita effantur, &c._ Somtime women were put in great blame, Men said they could not their tunges atame; But men take vpon theim nowe all the shame, With skolding and sklaundering make their tungs lame. _Novarum rerum cupidissimi, captatores, delatores, adulatores, invigilatores, deliratores, &c. id genus._ li. ille.