Ffyve hundreth, eight tymes tenn yn all.
          If ye can ioyne to gether well,
          By addyng thereto poynts vocall,
          The Authours name ye then ca[n] tell.

 

This provocative verse appears in New College MS 303, a book of prose and poetry written by an Elizabethan Catholic.  

 

New College Library, Oxford, BT1.4.6, f. 81r

 

New College Library and Archives, Oxford