Profest

O lawleſſe paunch the cauſe of much deſpight, / Through raunging of a curriſh appetite, / When ſplenish morſels cram the gaping Maw, / Withouten diets care, or trencher-law, / Tho neuer haue I Salerne rimes profeſt / To be ſome Ladies trencher-criticke gueſt; […]

Such honour was done in thoſe dayes to men who profeſt the ſtudy of wiſdome and eloquence, not only in their own Country, but in other Lands, that Cities and Siniories heard them gladly, and with great reſpect, if they had ought in publick to admoniſh the State.

Well, Faithful, thou haſt faithfully profeſt / Unto thy Lord: with him thou ſhalt be bleſt; / When Faithleſs ones, with all their vain delights, / Are crying out under their helliſh plights / Sing, Faithful, ſing; and let thy name ſurvive, / For though they kill’d thee, thou art yet alive.