Classic Poem

To Him again in return for a letter he wrot upon the former

Not like the bird whose bewteous train
Being praisd is more displayd again
Nor of the Academick witt
Is raysd by Humms to cherish it
When (as it thrives) it must at best
Have Scrattching store to mak't a Jest
Would I appeer: but Favours say
They clayme acknowledgment for pay
Which I heer offer to the skan
Of all great Arts Leviathan
For now I shall noe longer looke
Whence Hobbs intiteled his booke
Though surreptitious and by stealth
Sinae thou'rt above all commonwealth
Thy Straines Monarkike, nor can bear
Th'affront of a Competitor
Wher Science Liberall is who gurves
Not unto All prerogatives
Over the Tongue and Pen but brings
Those best deserve to be her Kings
Yet what are such if left alone
Nor Honord by Subjection
Whilst 'tis the great'st alay to power
When ther is noe inferiour
And nothing soe much Luster Spoyles
In Diamonds as to want their foyles.