42OPen your eares; for which of you will stop

53The vent of hearing, when lowd Rumor speaks?

64I from the Orient to the drooping West,

75(Making the wind my poste-horse) still vnfold

86The acts commenced on this ball of earth,

97Vpon my tongues continuall slanders ride,

108The which in euery language I pronounce,

119Stuffing the eares of men with false reports,

1210I speake of peace while couert enmity,

1311Vnder the smile of safety, woundes the world:

1412And who but Rumor, who but onely I,

1513Make fearefull musters, and prepar'd defence,

1614Whiles the bigge yeare, swolne with some other griefe,

1715Is thought with child by the sterne tyrant Warre?

1816And no such matter. Rumour is a pipe,

1917Blowne by surmizes, Iealousies coniectures,

2018And of so easie, and so plaine a stop,

2119That the blunt monster, with vncounted heads,

2220The still discordant wau'ring multitude,

2321Can play vpon it. But what need I thus

2422(My wel knowne body) to anothomize

2523Among my houshold? why is Rumor here?

A2