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Epigrames

Serued out in 52. seuerall Dishes for euery man to tast without surfeting. By I. C. Gent [i.e. John Cooke]
Cooke, Jo.

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An Epigrame vpon a Booke intituled the three Sisters, to a new Straine.
  
[Reader I know not how I haue pleas'd thy mind]
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Latet anguis in herba.
  
Nocumenta, Documenta.
  
In nasum.
  
Sic Iter ad astra.

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[If any man of monsters chance to talke]

If any man of monsters chance to talke,
Or big boaned Giants that this land did walke,
Cacus steps forth and telles you of his Sire,
And his long may-pole legs which reached higher,
Then strong imagination will giue leaue,
Or probability of truth receiue,
T'is but to signifie vnto this age,
His monstrous birth and high borne parentage,
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