For every fault does prove his penance still;

Falsely he falls into some dangerous noose,

And then as meanly labours to get loose;

A life so infamous is better quitting,

Spent in base injury and low submitting.[53]

I'd like to have left out his poetry;

Forgot by all almost as well as me.

Sometimes he has some humour, never wit,

And if it rarely, very rarely, hit,

'Tis under so much nasty rubbish laid,