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The Mastive, or Young-Whelpe of the Olde-Dogge

Epigrams and Satyrs [by Henry Parrot]
Parrot, Henry
 
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Stante te stabit uxor.

Lippus the Banckrout hath a bounsing Wife,
That would be chaste, were he but halfe so wise:
And yet the Buzzard, for auoyding strife,
Liues in a Lane obscur'd from watchfull eyes.
Tut, Lippus be content, and beare withall,
For if thou canst not stand, she needes must fall.
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