And guilty of the same offence and crime,
Whereof he was accused at this time:
Therefore for him hee thought it fitter farre,
To stand as a Delinquent at the barre,
Then to bee now empanell’d in a Jury.
George Withers then, with a Poetick fury,
Began to bluster, but Apollo’s frowne
Made him forbeare, and lay his choler downe.”
(Ibid, p. 11.)
Two much more sparkling and interesting “Sessions of Poets” afterwards appeared, to the tune of Ben Jonson’s “Cook Laurel.” The first of these begins:—