But to your highness that delight we leave,
To see these poets new their style advance.
Such as they are, or nought or little worth,
Deign to accept, and therewith we beseech,
That novelty give price to worthless things.
Unto this speech one of the Gentlemen answered as followeth:
Good ladies, unacquaint with cunning reach,
And eas’ly led to glory in your pow’r,
Hear now abash’d our late dissembled minds.
Nor now the first time, as yourselves best know,