The soules solace in times of trouble with severall particular remedies against despaire, collected out of the Psalmes of Daivd, and some short meditations and ejaculations upon the attributes of God, the Lords Prayer, and the tenne commandments / by F. Thorne ...

In the defence of Poesie.

NOne (I suppose) but men in judgement weake, In the dispraise of poesie will speak: For howso'ere some censure of this art, It is by God inspir'd into the heart, And upon further triall will be found, To be most antique, and the very ground Of many other arts, and to disclose As worthy things as eare was writ in prose, [Objection answered.] True, some for want of grace more then of wit, Divulge those things in rimes which are not fit: As hell-hacht-libells, ballads, foolish songs, To vent their malice, or avenge some wrongs Done unto them as they conceive, or friend, And such as these I much more discommend, Yea such if I might have my wish or will, Should walke up Holborne not Pernassus hill; For by their meanes this evill oft doth follow, Men slight the Muses and despise Apollo.

Proximus est oratori poeta.