TO HIS GOOD FREINDE S^{R} ANTH. COOKE.

Here my Camelion Muse her selfe doth chaunge

to diuers shapes of gross absurdities,

and like an Antick[131] mocks w^{th} fashion straunge

the fond[132] admirers of lewde gulleries.

Your iudgement sees w^{th} pitty, and w^{th} scorne

The bastard Sonnetts of these Rymers bace,

W^{ch} in this whiskinge age are daily borne

To their own shames, and Poetrie's disgrace.

Yet some praise those and some perhappes will praise

euen these of myne: and therefore thes I send

to you that pass in Courte yo^{r} glorious dayes;

Y^{t} if some rich rash gull these Rimes commend

Thus you may sett this formall witt to schoole,

Vse yo^{r} owne grace, and begg him for a foole.

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