George Gascoigne

The Raynbowe bending in the skye, Bedeckte with sundrye hewes, Is lyke the seate of God on hye, And seemes to tell these newes: That as thereby he promised, To drowne the worlde no more,

Full many wanton babes have I, Which must be stilld with lullabie.

Sing lullabie, as women do, Wherewith they bring their babes to rest; And lullabie can I sing to, As womanly as can the best.

I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more …

Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall, That every bullet hath a lighting place.