The ancient British Priests so called of their abode in woods.
Pindar Prince of the Greeke lyricks, of whom Horace: Pindarum quisquis studet, &c. Ode 2. lib. 4.
Horace first of the Romans in that kind.
The Irish Harpe.
As Britons, that so long
Haue held this Antike Song,
And let all our Carpers
Forbeare their fame to wrong,
80Th' are right skilfull Harpers.
Southerne, an English Lyrick.
To those that with despight
Shall terme these Numbers slight,
Tell them their Iudgement's blind,
Much erring from the right,
90It is a Noble kind.
An old English Rymer.