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Epigram.
[A rich plain Clowne, hauing a Knight to's Son]
A rich plain Clowne, hauing a Knight to's Son,That into some arrerages was runne,
Intreates his Father for his knighthoods sake.
Some mony-means, to help him, he would make:
For, pouertie so neare him did approach,
He must goe sell his Horses, pawne his Coach.
Nay, God forbid, qd. good-man Grunt his Father,
Ile zell the Close behind my barne (zonne) rather:
I hope (my childe) a wiser Knight thou art,
Then zell my daughter Madames Cart.
Come, come, my zonne, Ile zell a piece of land:
So to the sale when he should set his hand,
His Sonne sayes, father, you your selfe must write
A Gentleman; because your Sonne's a Knight.
VVell zon (quoth he) Ile write as you would haue,
But when my mony for this ground I gaue
I was a Yeoman, zo the VVritings zay:
Now Gentleman, I zell the same away.
If Gentlemen zell land, and yeomen buy,
Zonne Knight, a Yeoman let me liue and die.
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