The Battell betweene
"But if their meaning with their words agree,
"Then doe they seeke to undermine our Crowne,
A forged quarrell they impose on me,
That I a proud audacious Mouce should drowne:
And under this false colour they devise,
To cloke the treasons of their enterprise.
"Each foole can finde a staffe to beate a dog.
"He must have both his eyes that blindes a Frog.
"Then doe they seeke to undermine our Crowne,
A forged quarrell they impose on me,
That I a proud audacious Mouce should drowne:
And under this false colour they devise,
To cloke the treasons of their enterprise.
"Each foole can finde a staffe to beate a dog.
"He must have both his eyes that blindes a Frog.
Heaven and earth to witnesse I doe call,
And all the golden Planets of the skie,
That I attempted not the Mouces fall,
Nor once remember I did see him die:
But this I thinke, that, playing on the brim,
Seeing the gallant Frogs so bravely swim,
He thought to doe the like, and leaped in,
Where he was justly plagued for his sinne.
And all the golden Planets of the skie,
That I attempted not the Mouces fall,
Nor once remember I did see him die:
But this I thinke, that, playing on the brim,
Seeing the gallant Frogs so bravely swim,
He thought to doe the like, and leaped in,
Where he was justly plagued for his sinne.
And now these lurking creatures, hungry Mice,
Which scarce dare shew their faces in the light,
A crue of greedy vermine, which devise
Nothing but stealth and rapine in the night:
These doe unjustly charge me with his death,
Because within our reigne he lost his breath:
But I will teach these proud audacious fooles,
Not jest with kings, nor meddle with edge-tooles.
Which scarce dare shew their faces in the light,
A crue of greedy vermine, which devise
Nothing but stealth and rapine in the night:
These doe unjustly charge me with his death,
Because within our reigne he lost his breath:
But I will teach these proud audacious fooles,
Not jest with kings, nor meddle with edge-tooles.
Then
