The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton For the First Time Collected and Edited: With Memorial-Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, Glossarial Index, Facsimilies, &c. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In Two Volumes |
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[Some scoffe at all that write, write not at all]
Some scoffe at all that write, write not at all,Some write, but to finde fault with them that write:
Some ballat-makers scorne, and scorne by right,
Except they wince, because they feele the gall.
At rimers some, (ô poore worde) cast their gall,
Cast gall and all in such minde well they might:
Some through melancholy, or riuall spite,
All Poets sdeigne, or some no Poets call.
Avaunt such scoffing, sin default, scorning spirits.
Or let our writers, ballat-makers, rimers:
In her owne mony pay Lycambes merits.
Poets fly higher, then such pety climers,
Let this suffice, that Breton is a Poet,
Shee saide it, we subscribe it, his bookes shew it.
Mira Guarda.
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