120All aimed at wise, yet few could purchase it.

Some spake in oaths, as if they thought the earth

Was peopled o'er with faithless infidels;

Another swore, because he feared a dearth

Of other language, yet in oaths excels:

All swear enough, and he that did it least

Might be grand swearer at Ven-Bacchus feast.

Others there were that could not bigly prate,

Who did their evidences bring with them;