A weighty sentence in each little word;

Heroick Draiton, Withers, smart in Rime,

The very Poet-Beadles of the Time:

Panns pastoral Brown, whose infant Muse did squeak

At eighteen yeares, better than others speak:

Shirley the morning-child, the Muses bred,

And sent him born with bayes upon his head:

Deep in a dump Iohn Ford alone was got

With folded armes and melancholly hat;

The squibbing Middleton, and Haywood sage,