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78 Of Titus boasting.
A kinde companion Titus all his daies,And till his last, a pleasant wit and tongue;
If he had heard a man his owne strength praise,
Would tell what he would doe when he was yong.
And hauing, with oathes, his speeches bound:
Thus would he speak: I would at twelue score pricks,
Haue shot all day an arrow of a pound,
Haue shot the flight full fortie score and fixe,
I would haue ouer-lifted all the Gard,
Out-throwne them at the barre, the sledge the stone,
And he that is in wrestling held most hard,
I would in open plaine haue ouerthrowne.
Now, say some by, Was Titus e're so strong?
Who he? the weakest man a hundred among.
Why tels he then such lyes in serious sort,
What he could do? Nay, sure 'twas true, though sport.
He said not he could doe. That were a fable.
He said, He would haue done, had he beene able.
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