Epigram 65. To Parson Dulman

Your zealous Ignorance doth oft dispraise
Our Poets whatsoever that write Playes:
So small a pittance you of learning have,
Their worst of Playes doth all your works outbrave;
And I your zealous ignorance dispraise,
Telling you fam'd Nick Machiavil writ Playes.
But you to write a Play think an offence,
Is it not worse to preach so much nonsence?