IN MACRUM. 15.

Thou canst not speake yet, Macer, for to speake,

Is to distinguish sounds significant:

Thou with harsh noise the ayre dost rudely breake;

But what thou utterest common sence doth want,--

Halfe English words, with fustian termes among

Much like the burthen of a Northerne song.

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