Adde hereunto,
that whatsoever Grace any other Language carrieth in Verse or Prose,
in Tropes or Metaphors, in Eccho's and Agnominations, they may all be
lively and exactly represented in ours. Will you have Plato's Veine?
read Sir THOMAS SMITH; the Ionicke? Sir THOMAS MOORE; Cicero's?
ASCHAM; Varro? CHAUCER; Demosthenes? Sir JOHN CHEEKE (*); who hath
comprised all the Figures of Rhetoricke. Will you read Virgil?
take the Earle of SURRY; Catullus? SHAKSPEARE, and BARLOWES Fragment;
Ovid? DANIEL; Lucan? SPENCER; Martial? Sir JOHN DAVIES, and others.
Will you have all in all for Prose and Verse? take the Miracle of
our Age, Sir PHILIP SIDNEY.
(*) In his Treatise to the rebells.
And thus, if mine owne Eies bee not blinded by Affection, I haue
made yours to see, that the most renowned of all other Nations
have laid up, as in a Treasure, and entrusted the Divtisos orbe
Brttannos with the rarest Jewels of the Lips Perfections;
whether you respect the Understanding for Significancie, or the
Memorie for Easinesse, or the Conceit for Plentifullnesse,
or the Eare for Pleasantnesse: wherein if enough be delivered,
to add more than enough were superfluous; if too little, I leave it
to be supplied by better stored Capacities; if ought amisse,
I submit the same to the Discipline of everie able and
impartiall Censurer.
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