TO THE Earl of MACCLESFIELD

By Civil Law the DUCKS first got a Name, And STEPHEN's Flail, not Verse, has rais'd his Fame. My Rural-Lines if Macclesfield but Read, Will also, with my SOVERAIGN succeed. Read then most Noble Earl, O read once more, And let my Poetry increase my Store, TUSSER's Five Hundred Points of Husbandry In Verse; records his Name above the Sky. Let not the Witlings then of London-Town, Cry up Grubaean-Trash, and cry Us down; Parnassian-Heights, a Sylvan-Muse may try, Thus—Britain's Queen, with Sheba's Queen, may vie. O let this Truth, my Lord, but pave my way, And your Petitioner shall ever pray, &c.