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Satire 24

[A ladie fairer farr then fortunate]

A ladie fairer farr then fortunate,
(In dauncing) thus o'reshott hirselfe of late,
The musick not in tune, pleas'd not hir minde,
For which: shee with the fidlers fault did finde.
Fidlers quoth shee, your fidles tune for shame.
But as shee was a speaking of the same,


(To mend the consort) let shee did a ---
Whereat the fidling knaues thus did hir greete
Maddam your pipe's in tune, it plaies most sweete,
strike vp quoth they, (but then the knaues doe smile)
And as you pipe, wee'le daunce an other while.
At which, awaie the blusshing Ladie flinges,
But as shee goes, hir former noates shee singes.