Fall in between their hands that praise and love thee,[456]

And be to them a laughter and a jest:

But as for them which scorning shall reprove[457] thee,

Disdain their wits, and think thine own the best.

But if thou find any so gross and dull,

That thinks I do to private taxing[458] lean,10

Bid him go hang, for he is but a gull,

And knows not what an epigram doth[459] mean,

Which taxeth,[460] under a particular name,

A general vice which merits public blame.