Two bookes of epigrammes, and epitaphs Dedicated to two top-branches of gentry: Sir Charles Shirley, Baronet, and William Davenport, Esquire. Written by Thomas Bancroft |
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29. On Maltworme.
This sonne of Riot spent on Ale and Beere,And Indian fume, two Thousand pounds a yeare:
Yet nought for all his Angels hath to shew,
Except a great Nose of a glorious hew,
Worth all his body; for that is but mould,
But his tryumphant Nose scornes beaten gold.
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