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Chrestoleros

Seuen bookes of Epigrames written by T. B. [i.e. Thomas Bastard]

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Epigr. 31.

Dadus payde deare for learning, but the time
Did crosse him so, he could not haue his foorth.
For when he was by study a Diuine.
And at his best; learning was nothing worth.

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Is learning nothing worth so deerly bought,
Which could buy all things when it was in prime?
Sett we the goolden sciences at nought.
And sell we heauen for earth, and goolde for slime?
Yet were I Dadus I would not repent.
A schollers want excels a clownes content.