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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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[Ianus the ritch fat vsurer desird]

Ianus the ritch fat vsurer desird,
To be a knight and yet was loath to giue,
The compleate summe which of him was requird,
And once a yeare a feast while he did liue.
Ambition yet gaue couetousnes a blow,
That stroke two hundred pounds out of his purse,
But of his knighthood such great charge doth grow
That he repents of what he did disburse,
And wisely now his knighthood doth compare,
To pickle herring or tough martlemas beife,
(Which being eaten not for common faire)
Though it be ready bought yet playes the theefe,
meaning as those salt meates do steale down drinke
So doth his knight-hood steale away his chinke.
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