Should judgment be, and know-[65]

ledge, there are plush who scorn to drudge

For stages, yet can judge

Not only poets’ looser lines, but wits,

And all their perquisits;

A gift as rich as high

Is noble poesie:

Yet, tho’ in sport it be for Kings to play,

’Tis next mechanicks’ when it works for pay.

Alcæus lute had none,