Classic Poem

Against craking Misarehus

E PIG . 265.

M ISARCHUS drawes more blades then bloud by ods,
And yet he spoiles more bloud then bloudy blades;
He (gyant-like) dares fight against the gods,
And to the buskin topps in wine he wades
Fall'n from the ouer-flowings of the cupp:
Which makes good bloud (concocted as it ought)
Bloud thirsty, he such bloud still sucketh vp
And spoutheth it against the walls for nought;
 Thus spills he bloud in posse , and can tame
 The gods, but not in esse but in name.