Oh for some excellent pen-man to deplore their state: but he which would lively, naturally, or indeed poetically delyneate or enumerate these occurrents, shall either lead you thereunto by a poeticall spirit, as could well, if well he might the dead living, life-giving Sydney Prince of Poesie; or deifie you with the Lord Salustius devinity, or in an Earth-deploring, Sententious, high rapt Tragedie with the noble Foulk-Grevill, not onely give you the Idea, but the soule of the acting Idea; as well could, if so we would, the elaborate English Horace that gives number, waight, and measure to every word, to teach the reader by his industries, even our Lawreat worthy Benjamen, whose Muze approves him with (our mother) the Ebrew signification to bee, The elder Sonne, and happely to have been the Childe of Sorrow: It were worthy so excellent rare Witt: for myselfe I am neither Apollo nor Appelles, no nor any heire to the Muses: yet happely a younger brother, though I have as little bequeathed me, as many elder Brothers, and right borne Heires gaine by them: but Hic labor, Hoc opus est.   (sig. K1v)