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=====Beware the...===== | |||
:Who givest wit to Whales, to Apes, to Owls, | |||
:And kindly speech, to fish, to flesh, to fowls, | |||
:And spirit to men in soul and body clean, | |||
:To mark and know what other creatures mean | |||
:Which hast given grace to Gregory, no Pope, | |||
:No King, no Lord, whose treasures are their hope | |||
:But sinly Priest, which like a Streamer waves | |||
:In ghostly good, despised of foolish knaves. | |||
:Which hast (I say) given grace to him to know | |||
:The course of things above and here below, | |||
:With skill so great in languages and tongues: | |||
:As never breathed from Mithridates lungs. | |||
:To whom the hunter of birds, of mice and rats: | |||
:Did speak as plain as Kate that thrunmeth hats, | |||
:By means of whom is openly bewrayed, | |||
:Such things as closely were both done and said. | |||
:To him grant Lord with healthy wealth and rest: | |||
:Long life to unload to us his learned breast. | |||
:With fame so great to overlive his grave: | |||
:As none I had erst, nor any after have. |