On serious things, or sacred, let's not touch

With sated heads and bellies. Neither may

Fiddlers unask'd obtrude themselves to play.

With laughing, leaping, dancing, jests, and songs,

And whate'er else to grateful mirth belongs,

Let's celebrate our feasts; and let us see

That all our jests without reflection be.

Insipid poems let no man rehearse,

Nor any be compelled to write a verse.

All noise of vain disputes must be forborne,