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Of a poore Curate that wold haue pawn'd his Bible to a rich Precisians for a Crowne.

Epigram. 7.

A Curat, poore, a rich Precisian, praide
To lend him but a Crowne but for a Day;
But his request (precisely) he denaide:
Then on his Bible, he the same did pray;
But he (like a precise illiberall Clowne)
Would take nor his, nor Gods-Word for a Crown.