Classic Poem

Of Cheris his making of Faces.

C HERIS , the merry minstrell, makes men laffe
 With many faces which be (singing) makes;
What though at him his hearers scoff or chafe.
Because he looks as he were on Alax:
Yet Cheris' face from shame he still doth fence
With shamelesse ignorance and impudence;
 And so seeing coyne (by facing) comes in game,
 Great men in ernest often do the same.