That no man should write but such as doe excell

SHould no man write (say you,)
but such as doe excell?
This fonde deuise of yours deserues
a Bable and a Bell.
Then one alone should doe
or verie few in déede:
For that in erie Art there can
but one alone exceede.
Should others ydle bée
and waste their age in vaine,
That mought perhaps in after time
the prick and price attaine?
By practise skill is got
by practise Wit is woon.
At games you sée how many doe
to win the wager roon,
Yet one among the moe
doth beare away the Bell:
Is that a cause to say the rest
in running did not well?
If none in Phisick should
but onely Galene deale,
No doubt a thousand perishe would
whome Phisick now doth heale.
Eche one his Talent hath,
to vse at his deuise:
Which makes that many men as well
as one are counted wise.
For if that Wit alone
in one should rest and raine
Then God the skulles of other men
did make but all in vaine.
Let eche one trie his force,
and doe the best he can
For therevnto appointed were
the hand and hed of man.
The Poet Horace speakes
against thy Reason plaine,
Who sayes tis, somewhat to attempt
although thou not attaine
The scope in erie thyng:
to touch the highst degrée
Is passing hard, too doe the best
sufficing is for thée.