¶ To David Dicars when.  

¶ To him that doth dream,  
David Dicars when,  
And even so from him,  
to such other men.   
FRom when unto when, to come to this when.  
When fools of your folly, will work like wise men  
And know their own faults, & leave faulting other  
And first mend themselves, & then warn their brother,  
envying none, for that their sort is not  
Such as they would be, like others I wots.  
Gods of degree, to rule and bear sway,  
Whose manners meet not, to stand in such stay,  
And yet would have mouths, to roar like the Lion  
Being but Asses, brute of condition. 
Esopus de asino ru●ēte   
forgetting that order doth thus ask and crave,  
That each should himself in order behave.  
As beasts of low sort, to be meek of their mind,  
To those that be higher, and greater of kind.  
The Bore not to brag, to strive with the lion.  
The heart not to stand, with the Bull in contention,  
The Ox that doth draw, to think himself able,  
To run for a wager, with the Horse of the stable.  
It grease not, it cords not, nor orderly fits  
That men should find fault, with Gods and their wits.  
jupiters' seat stands somewhat to high  
For us to judge it, that come it not nigh.  
And judgements of guess, in any such sort,  
May serve to the Gods, for a laughter and sport.  
To see how judas, would fain become juda,  
To just at the life, of juli apostata.  
Let Beasts that be meet, for cart and carriage,  
Lean to their labour, as man to his marriage.  
And since we be members of one common wealth.  
Let us join aptly, as fits for our health.  
The eye as the eye, let him stare and look,  
And let the leg learn, to bow and to crook.  
Let the hand answer, to help and to do.  
As the will of the heart, shall will him unto.  
And let not the foot, make murmur and cry.  
To ask why our head is placed so high.  
Our instrument jars, it makes no right melody.  
If we thus tune not to order our armony.  
Then master when, when both you and I,  
And every man else will learn to apply,  
To our right metyarde, and keep our just compass,  
And look not so deep in an other man's glass.  
And leave dreaming dreams of dead David Dicar,  
And send such whence home, to our person or vicar.  
And therewith remember, this verse of Cato,  
Whose wisdom doth warn us, with these words I trow  
Que soles culpare, ea tu ipse:  
ne feceris. when we mark this nips,  
And leave drawing dials, on other men's doing  
And learn for to look to our own works and brewing,  
Then I say then, when you again when:  
will say well yourself, and such other men,  
And all folk will do well. Lo thus I end then,  
All things shall be well, which god grant. Amen.  
Domine saluum fac Regem & da pacem in diebus nostris. Quod T. Camel.   

Imprinted at London by Harry Sutton, dwelling in Paul's Churchyard, at the sign of the black boy.