_Quarterly Review._
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RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS
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ANCIENT FARRIERY.
(_For the Mirror_.)
The following curious verses are copied from an engraving which the
Farriers' Company have lately had taken from an old painting of their
pedigree, on vellum, at the George and Vulture Tavern.
If suche may boast as by a subtile arte,
Canne without labour make excessive gayne,
And under name of Misterie imparte,
Unto the worlde the Crafie's but of their brayne.
How muche more doe their praise become men's themes
That bothe by art and labour gett their meanes.
And of all artes that worthe or praise doeth merite,
To none the _Marshall Farrier's_ will submitt,
That bothe by Physicks, arte, force, hands, and spiritt
The Kinge and subject in peace and warre doe fitt,
Many of Tuball boast first Smythe that ever wrought,
But _Farriers_ more do, doe than Tuball ever taught.
Three things there are that _Marshalry_ doe prove
To be a Misterie exceeding farre,
Those wilie Crafte's that many men doe love.
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