Nympha libethris, or, The Cotswold muse presenting some extempore verses to the imitation of yong [sic] scholars : in four parts.
Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.
LVIII. To the Readers.
Conclusion.
MY verse, because they are not hard and rare,
As some of Dav'nant's, Don's and Cleveland's are,
You censure. Pray Sir, must all men write so?
Or can wee all unto fair Corinth go?
But, Truth is, I'd not write so, if I cou'd:
I write, just as I speak, to be understood.
Whose sense will not without much study come,
Let him, for me, be altogether dumb.
No Persius be my Reader; but such may,
As He, who once threw Persius away.
Ohe, jam satis est, ohe Libelle.
