With many more; yet though our tongues did jar,

Our quarrel ended in a lippy war.

We kissed to friendship, like the nurse and child,'

And there she stopped, whereat the heavens smiled.

Then came a servingman, a blunt old knave,

170That dared Parnassus with a saucy brave.

'In youth,' says he, 'I rhymed and framèd notes

To Pan's choice music and the shepherds' throats:

And many a lusty bowl of cream have got

For Kate's three brace of rhymes, which was, God wot,