Note 372 — PART III.—Prose

See, in particular, his satire against courtiers. The following is against imitators: "But he is worst, who (beggarly) doth chaw Others wit's fruits, and in his ravenous maw Rankly digested, doth those things out-spew, As his owne things; and they 're his owne, 't is true, For if one eate my meate, though it be knowne The meat was mine, th' excrement is his owne." —Donne's "Satires," 1639. Satire II. p. 128.