And drink in Tubber fair,

Or poach with Red Dan Philly’s bitch

The badger and the hare.

ON AN ANNIVERSARY

After reading the dates in a book of Lyrics.

With Fifteen-ninety or Sixteen-sixteen

We end Cervantes, Marot, Nashe or Green:

Then Sixteen-thirteen till two score and nine,

Is Crashaw’s niche, that honey-lipped divine.

And so when all my little work is done