Chrestoleros Seuen bookes of Epigrames written by T. B. [i.e. Thomas Bastard] |
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Epigr. 36. De puero balbutiente.
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Epigr. 36. De puero balbutiente.
Me thinkes tis pretie sport to heare a childe,Rocking a worde in mouth yet vndefild.
The tender racket rudely playes the sound,
Which weakely banded cannot backe rebound,
And the soft ayre the softer roofe doth kisse,
With a sweete dying and a pretie misse.
Which heares no answere yet from the white ranke
Of teeth, not risen from their corall banke.
The alphabet is searcht for letters soft,
To trye a worde before it can be wrought.
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As when a man doth walke vpon the yce.
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