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A twise seuen houres (in so many weekes) studie: No longer (like the fashion) nor vnlike to continue. The first seuen. [by] Iohn Weeuer

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Epig. 2 Ad Lectorem.

Reader, this fift last weeke in dead mens praise
I would not spend one line, because I spied,
That more then halfe the week were fasting dais,
And that thou wert already mortified:
Remember yet (kind Reader) if thou can,
Thou art no more than any mortall man.