and that she
    So to the period of the world shall be;
    Else had she beene forsaken (sure) of all,
    For that so many sundry mischiefes fall
    Vpon her dayly, and so many take
    Armes vp against her, as it well might make
    Her to forsake her nature, and behind,
    To leaue no step for future time to find, 60
    As she had neuer beene, for he that now
    Can doe her most disgrace, him they alow
    The times chiefe Champion, and he is the man,
    The prize, and Palme that absolutely wanne,
    For where Kings Clossets her free seat hath bin
    She neere the Lodge, not suffered is to Inne,
    For ignorance against her stands in state,
    Like some great porter at a Pallace gate;
    So dull and barbarous lately are we growne,
    And there are some this slauery that haue sowne, 70
    That for mans knowledge it enough doth make,
    If he can learne, to read an Almanacke;
    By whom that trash of Amadis de Gaule,
    Is held an author most authenticall,
    And things we haue like Noblemen that be
    In little time, which I haue hope to see
    Vpon their foot-clothes, as the streets they ride
    To haue their hornebookes at their girdles ti’d. 
    But all their superfluity of spite
    On vertues hand-maid Poesy doth light, 80
    And to extirpe her all their plots they lay,
    But to her ruine they shall misse the way,
    For his alone the Monuments of wit,
    Aboue the rage of Tyrants that doe sit,
    And from their strength, not one himselfe can saue,
    But they shall tryumph o’r his hated graue. 
      In my conceipt, friend, thou didst neuer see
    A righter Madman then thou hast of me,
    For now as Elegiack I bewaile
    These poor base times; then suddainely I raile 90
    And am Satirick, not that I inforce
    My selfe to be so, but euen as remorse,
    Or hate, in the proud fulnesse of their hight
    Master my fancy, iust so doe I write. 
      But gentle friend as soone shall I behold
    That stone of which so many haue vs tould,
    (Yet neuer any to this day could make)
    The great Elixar or to vndertake
    The Rose-crosse knowledge which is much like that
    A Tarrying-iron for fooles to labour at, 100
    As euer after I may hope to see,
    (A plague vpon this beastly world for me,)
    Wit so respected as it was of yore;
    And if hereafter any it restore,
    It must be those that yet for many a yeare,
    Shall be vnborne that must inhabit here,
    And such in vertue as shall be asham’d
    Almost to heare their ignorant Grandsires nam’d,
    With whom so many noble spirits then liu’d,
    That were by them of all reward