At joust and tournament; then marshalled feast

Served up in hall with sewers and seneshals:

The skill of artifice and office mean;

Not that which justly gives heroic name

To person or to poem! Me, of these

Nor skilled nor studious, higher argument

Remains, sufficient of itself to raise

That name, unless an age too late, or cold

Climate, or years, damp my intended wing

Depressed; and much they may if all be mine,