SELECTIONS FROM RENFREWSHIRE POETS.
A PICK-TOOTH FOR THE POPE : OR THE PACK-
MANS PATER NOSTER.
Set down in a DialoffHe, betwixt a Packman and a Priest.
TRANSLATED OUT OF DUTCH BY S. I. S. AND NEWLY AUGMENTED AND
ENLARGED BY HIS SON, B. S.
This pious Poeme buy and read
For off the Pope it knocks the head.
TO THE READER.
This Present (for the present) I present,
To you, good Reader, with my small addition.
The which, to imitate is my intent :
To match, or over-match, were great ambition :
I but enlarge it, not surpasse ; for neither
I may, can, will, dare parallel my Father.
I may not ; for I cannot reach unto it ;
A nd though I could, I ivill not enterprise it ;
A nd though I tvould, could, might, I dare not do it ;
To dare, ivere with disdain for to despise it.
My Parents Poeme only to expresse,
I jjresse, of neiv, to put into the Presse,