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Chrestoleros

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

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Epigr. 22.

If a poore minister haue done amisse,
Then his high calling is obiected to him.
High to all wrong I grant our calling is,
And great and wonderous to our vndoing,
But they which set vs high to all disgrace,
In honour put vs to the lowest place.