Ben: Ionson's execration against Vulcan· VVith divers epigrams by the same author to severall noble personages in this kingdome. Never published before.
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637., Vaughan, Robert, engraver.
To my Detractor.
MY Verses were commended, thou didst say,
And they were very good; yet thou thinkst nay.
For thou obiectest, as thou hast beene told,
Th'envy'd returne of forty pound in gold.
Foole do not rate my rimes, I have found thy vice
Is to make cheap the Lord, the Lines the Price:
But bark thou on; I pitty thee poore Cur,
That thou shouldst lose thy noise, thy foame, thy stur,
To be knowne what thou art, thou blatent beast;
But writing against me, thou thinkst at least
Page [unnumbered]I now would write on thee: no wretch, thy name
Cannot worke out unto it such a Fame:
No man will tarry by thee as he goes
To aske thy name, if he have halfe a nose;
But flye thee like the Pest. Walke not the streete
Out in the Dog-dayes, least the Killer meet
Thy Noddle with his Club; and dashing forth
Thy dirty brains, men see thy want of worth.
B. Ionson.
