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Of Castors Nose.
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Of Castors Nose.
When Castor diggs, a spadehis Nose is vnto hym:
A Trumpet when he sleepes:
a Sithe and Sickle trim
When as he gathers grapes:
an Anker when he sailes:
A Culter when he plowes
that cuts and neuer failes:
When as he taketh fishe
a fishhooke all the while:
And when he would haue fleshe
his Nose a fleshhooke vile:
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a grauyng knife: and when
He prunes and dresseth trees
a graffyng knife as then:
A chipaxe, looke when as
the Carpenter he plaies:
A passyng picklock, when
to open lockes he saies.
And what so Castor doth,
he can not misse his snoute:
His nose must be the toole,
his woorke to bryng aboute.
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