One and Thyrtye Epigrammes wherein are briefly touched so many Abuses, that maye and ought to be put away. Compiled and Imprinted by Robert Crowley |
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Of Obstinate Papistes
An obstinate Papistethat was sometyme a Frier
Hadde of his Friers cote
so greate a desire
That he stale out of England
and wente to Louayne
And gate his Fryers cote
on his foles backe agayne
A wilfull Beggar
A fole and a fryer
and thus is one man thre.
Would god all the papistis
that he lefte behynde
Where wyth him in fryes cotis,
accordyng to theyr kynde
Or els I woulde they were
wyth theyr father the pope,
For whylse they be in England
thei do but lyue in hope.
And excep they myght get
the Bible boke burned,
Into dispeyre theyr hope
wyl shortly be turned.
God graunte them the grace
this hope to forsake
And their naturall prynce
for theyr heade to take
Forsakinge the Pope
wyth al hys peltrye,
Whiche of longe tyme
they haue sette so much by.
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