It were but shame for one to smite us, who

Could but weep louder.

A Shakespearean trick is copied in such lines as:

All other women's praise

Makes part of my blame, and things of least account

In them are all my praises.

And there is a jester who talks in a metre that might have come straight out of Beaumont and Fletcher, as here:

I am considering of that apple still;

It hangs in the mouth yet sorely; I would fain know too

Why nettles are not good to eat raw. Come, children,