That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses.

I mean with great but disproportioned muses.=

For if I thought my judgment were of years,

I should commit thee surely with thy peers,

And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine,

Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line;

And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek,

From thence to honor thee I would not seek

For names: but call forth thundering Æschylus,

Euripides and Sophocles to us.