104But I will not call you noddie, but only in ie st,

105And thus I a s s ure you, though I came from schoole,

106To serue in this Court, I came not yet to be the Kinges foole,

107Or to fill his eares with seruile squirilitie,

108That office is yours, you know it right perfectlie,

109Of Para sites and Scicophants you are a graue bencher,

110The Kinge feedes you often from his owne trencher,

111I enuye not your state, nor yet your great fauour,

112Then grudge not at all, if in my behauiour:

113I make the Kinge mery, with pleasant vrbanitie,

114Whom I neuer abused to any mans iniurie.

116 P Be cocke sir, yet in the Courte you doo be st thriue,

117For you get more in on day then I doo in fiue.

119 P Why man in the Courte, doo you not s ee,

120Rewardes geuen for vertue, to euery degree?

121To rewarde the vnworthy that worlde is done,

122The Courte is changed, a good thread hath bin sponne

123Of Dogges woll heretofore, and why? because it was liked,

124And not for that it was be st trimmed and picked:

125But now mens eares are finer, such gro s s e toyes are not set by,

126Therfore to a trimmer kynde of myrth my selfe I applye,

127Wherin though I please, it commeth not of my desert,

128But of the Kinges fauour.

130 P It may so be, yet in your prosperitie,

131Dispise not an olde courtier, Carisophus is he,

132Which hath longe time fed Dioni sius humor:

133Diligently to please, styll at hand, there was neuer rumor,

134Spread in this towne of any smale thinge, but I

135Brought it to the Kinge in po st by and by,

136Yet now I craue your friend ship, which if I may attayne,

137Mo st sure and vnfained frind ship I promyse you againe:

138So we two linckt in frind shippe brother and brother,

139Full well in the Courte may helpe one another.

141 P Bir Lady Carisophus, though you know not Philosophie,

142Yet surely you are a better Courtier then I,

143And yet I not so euyll a courtier that wyll seeme to dispise,

144Such an old courtier as you so expert and so wyse,

145But where as you craue myne & offer your friend ship so willingly,

146With hart I geue you thankes for this your great curte sie: