Classic Poem

Bought you your benefice? say Brutius, say:
Or came you by the same some other way?
To it you came (you say) you came not by it:
But first ere you came to, you did come buy it.
You must come by, you say, ere you come to it,
You say but true herein, and you did doe it:
For if you came to, ere by it you came,
You came on wings not feete vnto the same
Came you (like God) vpon the wings of winde?
That were miraculous, against your kinde
Or els, like Dedalus, on wings of art?
You learning lacke, you cannot play that part
You could not come on any eagles wings,
For, they cannot sustaine such sinfull things
What wings good Brutius then supported you
To scape so many lets o're which you flew?
Came you on angels wings? yea so you say
But were they good or ill that fled that way?
Good, you protest: and I protest with you,
They were the best that way that euer flew.