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Chrestoleros

Seuen bookes of Epigrames written by T. B. [i.e. Thomas Bastard]

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Epigr. 9. In adorantes reliquias.

Is it a worthy thing to digge vp bones?
To kisse, t'adore the reliques of dead men?

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Alas how foolish were those sily ones,
Which in times past did nought but burie them?
But they perhaps for stinke did then refraine:
But you doe worse to make them stinke againe.
Yet in the very stinking this is odd.
They stank to men then, now they stinke to God.