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Chrestoleros

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

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Epigr. 24.

Faustus is sicke of care, the doctors say,
His cure and remedy must be delay.

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While sicke consuming Faustus keeps his bedde.
An hundred whole men are consum'd and deade.
After all this Faustus recouereth;
I see care is a tricke to cosin death.