Cum venia, dabis———
Yet some indulgence I may justly claim,
If too familiar with another's fame.
Take heed you mistake me not. If I do a little forget myself, I hope you will pardon it. And to say truth, why should any man be offended, or take exceptions at it?
Licuit, semperque licebit,
Parcere personis, dicere de vitiis.
It lawful was of old, and still will be,
To speak of vice, but let the name go free.
Suspicione si quis errabit sua,
Et rapiet ad se, quod erit commune omnium,