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Epigram. 4. In Chiromanticum quendam.
One by profession a Palmester,That in his rare iudicials could not erre,
Would needsly cause me for to vnderstand,
My fortune by the looking in my hand.
Of which after he had a perfect view,
'Mongst many false, I scarce heard one thing true.
Then I, to quite me like a lusty lad,
Straight crau'd his hand to shew the skill I had.
And therein at the first sight did espie,
That he had beene arraign'd for fellonie.
Whereon I told him, if he did not mend,
Of his then shortly following crack-rope end.
Thy verdict, Reader: iudge indifferently,
Which had more skill, the Palmester, or I.
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