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CANTO II.] For guts, some write, ere they are sodden, Are fit for music, or for pudden; From whence men borrow every kind Of minstrelsy, by string or wind. His grisly beard was long and thick, With which he strung his fiddle-stick; For he to horse-tail scorn'd to owe For what on his own chin did grow. Chiron, the four-legg'd bard, had both A beard and tail of his own growth; And yet by authors 'tis averr'd, He made use only of his beard. In Staffordshire, where virtuous worth Does raise the minstrelsy, not birth: "Where bulls do choose the boldest king And ruler o'er the men of string; As once in Persia, 'tis said, Kings were proclaim'd b' a horse that neigh'd;