Rogero-Mastir A rod for William Rogers, in return for his Riming Scourge, &c. By Thomas Ellwood |
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[To such as ask, why I in Verse have writ?]
Prov. 26. 5.
To such as ask, why I in Verse have writ?
This Answer I return, I held it fit,
Verse should in Verse be answer'd, Prose in Prose.
My Adversary his own Weapon chose.
He chose before in Prose to write, and then
I answer'd him in Prose. So now agen,
Since he his Stile from Prose to Verse hath chang'd,
And in the Muses Walks hath boldly rang'd,
In his own Method him I chose to Treat,
Lest he should wise be in his own Conceit,
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