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To Flaccus.
Flaccus thou knowest not Epigrams,no more then babes or boyes:
Whiche deemst them to be nothyng els,
but sports and triflyng toyes:
He rather toyes, and sports it out,
whiche doeth in Uerse recite
Fell Tereus dinner, or whiche doeth,
Thyestes supper write:
Or he whiche telles how Dedalus,
did teache his sonne to flie:
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the Shepheard with one eye.
From bookes of myne, are quight exempt,
all rancour, rage and gall:
No plaier in his peuishe weeds,
heare prankyng see you shall:
Yet these men doe adore (thou sayst)
laude, like and loue: in deed,
I graunt you sir those they do laude,
perdie but these thei reed.
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