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Epig. 21 In Sippum.

Thou cal'st thy selfe Knight, Sippus of the Poste,
But on the pillor-I say knighthoods lost,
Yet as thou dost for six pence cut a throate,
At Westminster be periur'd for a groate:
Cheate and Cros-bite, to all men do but euill,
Thou maist be knight, and ride poste to the deuil.