Glend. Ile not haue it alter'd

Hotsp. Will not you?

Glend. No, nor you shall not

Hotsp. Who shall say me nay?

Glend. Why, that will I

Hotsp. let me not vnderstand you then, speake it in

Welsh

Glend. I can speake English, Lord, as well as you:

For I was trayn'd vp in the English Court;

Where, being but young, I framed to the Harpe

Many an English Dittie, louely well,

And gaue the Tongue a helpefull Ornament;

A Vertue that was neuer seene in you

Hotsp. Marry, and I am glad of it with all my heart,

I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew,

Then one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers:

I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd,

Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree,

And that would set my teeth nothing an edge,

Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie;

'Tis like the forc't gate of a shuffling Nagge

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