And say I better might have us'd my talents
Than t' humour ladies and perfumèd gallants.
Know such that pamphlets, writ in metre, measure
As much invention, judgement, wit, as pleasure.
All learning's not lock'd up in si's and tum's.
Roses, pinks, violets, as well as gums,
Some native fragour have to equal civet.
10Minerva does not all her treasures rivet
Into the screws of obs and sols: but we
Are sea-born birds, and as our pedigree