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Chrestoleros

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

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Epigr. 46. In Porum.

Bitus desired Porus of his grace,
That in his seruice he might haue a place.
He sayde he was of honest occupation.

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He could no lye nor false dissimulation,
He knewe no wicked meanes to fill his purse,
But Porus answred, he likes him the worse.