Of Titus boasting

A Kinde companion Titus all his daies,
And till his last, a pleasant wit and tongue;
f he had heard a man his owne strength praise,
Would tell what he would doe when he was yong.
And hauing, with oathes, his speeches bound:
Thus would he speak: I would at twelue score pricks,
Haue shot all day an arrow of a pound,
Haue shot the flight full fortie score and sixe,
would haue ouer-lifted all the Gard,
Out-throwne them at the barre, the sledge, the stone,
And he that is in wrestling held most hard,
would in open plaine haue ouerthrowne.
Now, say some by, Was Titus e're so strong?
Who he? the weakest man a hundred among.
Why tels he then such lyes in serious sort,
What he could do? Nay, sure 'twas true, though sport.
He said not he could doe. That were a fable.
He said, He would haue done, had he beene able.