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Chrestoleros

Seuen bookes of Epigrames written by T. B. [i.e. Thomas Bastard]

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Epigr. 19. In Seuerum.

Seuerus reads my booke, and hauing read,
Forthwith pronounceth me an idle head.
And idle he had binn as well as we,

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But that he matter found to carpe at me:
Then all goes not amisse as I mistooke;
I see there is some matter in my book.