Nor never did in shade of Tempe sit:

And Muses scorne with vulgar braines to dwell,

Poore Lay-man I, for sacred rites unfit.

Some doe I heare of Poets fury tell,

But God wot, wot not what they meane by it:

And this I sweare by blackest brooke of hell,

I am no Pickepurse of an others wit.

How fals it than, that with so smooth an ease

My thoughts I speake? And what I speake doth flowe

In verse; and that my verse best wittes doth please,