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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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104. Children and fools tell Truth.

The English Proverb, cals such Fools, as tell
The very Truth; a Liar bears the Bell.
Therefore if you speak Truth, to English Men;
You may be for your labour, Fool cal'd, then.