May yet be there; and godwit if we can:

Knat, rail, and ruf too, howsoe’er, my man

Shall read a piece of Virgil, Tacitus,

Livy, or of some better book to us,

Of which we’ll speak our minds, amidst our meat;

And I’ll profess no verses to repeat.

To this, if aught appear, which I not know of,

That will the pastry, not my paper, show of.

Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be;

But that which most doth take my muse and me,