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Epigram. 89. In Hodge.

Hodge sees men shun him, & doth wonder why,
They know (qd. he) my breath wil not infect them,
I neuer had the pox, nor plague yet, I;
These who so haue, men, worthily reiect them:
Hodge, thou hast pouerty, a worse disease,
Then pox, or plague, or twenty worse then these.