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Clarastella

Together with Poems occasional, Elegies, Epigrams, Satyrs. By Robert Heath

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On Resolute Bat.

As rough as bear-skins for behaviour,
Abisket face as hard for favour,
As blunt as back of knife, as dul
As whetstone, or cram'd capon ful,

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His talk as women backward flat,
And though laught at, he's Resolute Bat;
Hee'l to the Club, and prate his share
Or more, pay lesse than any there;
Oh what a pretty thing is it
To be but bold though without wit?