Y’are only big with fancy, which may prove

A witty Brat, like Pallas sprung from Jove.

And have you then conceiv’d? How can I chuse

But write Encomiums on my fertile Muse?

Mind not the Father, nor his Brat, for it

Will like the Father live (no doubt) by wit:

Let Pegasus be Godfather, the crew

Of the nine Muses, Gossips; so adieu.

I desired no answer, therefore stayed not till the return of the messenger, but rid that night to Maidenhead.

CHAP. LV.