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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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[Lord what a colle there was to be a Lady]

Lord what a colle there was to be a Lady,
By mistris Wood beon a gentle woman,
Wife to yong Hary holdfast, Knight that may be,
Nay will be, though his fathers but a yeoman
Madnes has ceas'd on his wiues troubled braine,
Because the present time she was no Lady,
He seekes to comfort her and ease her paine,
She does not like this shall be nor this may be,
Shall Maulkin milke-maide her high words exalt,
In euery place before me I abhorre it,
Whose fresh gentillity was pickt from malt,
What reason law or conscience haue you for it,
Away he went in hast, home knighted came,
And she was turnd from a mad dame to madam.
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