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Flovvers of Epigrammes

Ovt of sundrie the moste singular authours selected, as well auncient as late writers. Pleasant and profitable to the expert readers of quicke capacitie: By Timothe Kendall
 

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Mannes miserie.

I wept when I was borne,
and now at point of death
I likewise weepe, and weepe I shall
while bodie beareth breath.
O wretched mortall man,
weake, wofull, pensiue, sad:
Come life or death (thou livst a wretche)
no comfort to be had.