Facetiae : Musarum deliciae, or, The Muses recreation, conteining ...

434 Fancies and Fantasticks./joTrue conceit.Spoyling senses of their treasure,Cousening judgement with a measure,But false weight.Wresting words from their true calling,Propping Verse for fear of fallingTo the ground.Joyning syllables, drowning letters,Fastning vowells, as with fettersThey were bound.Soon as lazie thou wer't known.All good Poetry hence was flown,And art banish'd.For a thousand years together,All Parnassus green did wither,And wit vanish'd.Pegasus did fly away,At the wells no Muse did stay,But bewayl'dSo to see the fountaine dry,And Apollo's Musick dye ;All light fail'd !Starveling Rimes did fill the stage,Not a Poet in an ageWorth crowning.Not a work deserving Bayes,Nor a line deserving praise ;Pallas frowning.Greek was free from Rimes infection,Happy Greek by this protection