And so these poetes, with theyr golden streames,

Devoyde our rudenes wyth grete fyry lemes;

Theyr centencious verses are refulgent

Encensyng out the odour redolent.

And is theyr worke also extynguyshible?

Nay, truely, for it doth shyne ryght cleere

Thrugh cloudes derke unto the odyble,

To whom truely it may nothyng appeere

Where connyng fayleth, the scyence so deere

Ignoraunce hateth wyth fervent envy,