They may blood-shaken then,
Feel such a flesh-quake to possess their powers,
As they shall cry like ours,
In sound of peace, or wars,
No harp ere hit the stars,
In tuning forth the acts of his sweet reign,
And raising Charles his chariot ’bove his wain.”
This Magisterial Ode, as Langbaine calls it, was answered by Owen Feltham, author of the “Resolves.” His character of Ben Jonson should be attended to:—
An Answer to the Ode, “Come Leave the
Loathed Stage, &c.”
Come leave this sawcy way