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Epigrames

Serued out in 52. seuerall Dishes for euery man to tast without surfeting. By I. C. Gent [i.e. John Cooke]
Cooke, Jo.

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An Epigrame vpon a Booke intituled the three Sisters, to a new Straine.
  
[Reader I know not how I haue pleas'd thy mind]
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[Who er'e will go vnto the presse may see]

Who er'e will go vnto the presse may see,
The hated Fathers of vilde balladrie,
One sings in his base note the Riuer Thames,
Shal sound the famous memory of noble king Iames
Another sayes that he will to his death,
Sing the renowned worthinesse of sweet Elizabeth,
So runnes their verse in such disordered straine,
And with them dare great maiesty prophane,
Some dare do this, some other humbly craues,
For helpe of spirits in their sleeping graues,
As he that calde to Shakespeare, Iohnson, Greene,
To write of their dead noble Queene,
But he that made the Ballads of oh hone,
Did wondrous well to whet the buyer on,

These fellowes are the slaunderers of the time,
Make ryming hatefull through their bastard rime.
But were I made a iudge in poetry,
They all should burne for their vilde heresie.
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