⟨A Coppie of verses against Lilly⟩
In lilium bardum Astrologastrum
Lilius est quidvis, est bardus, perditas, audax,
Est mendax, afinus Lilius astrologus
Demonstret nomen te mendacissime Lili
Nomine bis mendax dicere, req magis
Istis quid levius quibus est pro numine nomen
Mendacis, magis est qui levitate levis
How vaine, how light, how foolish and how naught
Are all that praise thee and thy bookes have baught?
Candida mi Lili non sunt tibi lilia nomen
Uix inter vepres nomen habere potes
To call you Lillie more it were a scorne
Your name's a nettle thistle brier or thorne
Your head your pen'e your tongue doth prick and sting
More then doth nettle prier or any thing
To Lillie now all men may well say Phy
Because your name saith twise to you ye lie
But i
[...] you say you have an L in more
Then adde ye fiftie lies to two before
Thus lies for weekes make up a good new yeere
O brave what Almanacker have we here.