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Against Mabilius a bitter rayling Poet.

Ore tibi pauci, sed nulli in carmine dentes
quum sint, atque illi sunt putridi & veteres, &c.

There be but few teeth in thy jawes,
But in thy verse are none,
And those thou hast be rotten, or
Their use by age is gone.
And though thou canst not bite at all,
Yet barke thou dost meane space.
Which showes thee (though in shape a man,)
Yet of a dogged race.