The Works in Verse and Prose (including hitherto unpublished Mss.) of Sir John Davies: for the first time collected and edited: With memorial-introductions and notes: By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In three volumes |
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Ad Musam. 48.
Peace, idle Muse, haue done! for it is time,Since lousie Ponticus enuies my fame,
And sweares the better sort are much to blame
To make me so well nowne for my ill rime:
Yet Bankes, his horse, is better knowne than he.
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And so is Lepidus his printed Dog:
Why doth not Ponticus their fames enuie?
Besides, this Muse of mine, and the blacke feather
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And both growne stale, were cast away together:
What fame is this that scarce lasts out a fashion?
Onely this last in credit doth remaine,
That from henceforth, each bastard cast-forth rime,
Which doth but savour of a libell vaine,
Shall call me father, and be thought my crime;
So dull, and with so little sence endu'd,
Is my grose-headed Judge, the multitude.
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