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A third Bird of the same Nest.
Another (one Iohn Howgrave) dwelt at Yarmouth(Not hot, or cold, but with a meere lukewarm-mouth
From country, wife & houshold late he fled
To Rotterdam, for's Conscience as he sed;
At Iohn Burgaries house, he took his Inne,
And woo'd his Hostesse to the Paphean sin.
Burgaries wife by him with childe was got,
That Howgrave fearing Rotterdam too hot,
Fled back to Yarmouth, whence at first he came;
His fault was knowne, and he chid for the same:
He said it was not he did that vile deed,
But sin that dwelt in him that fault did breed;
And that the devill should more damnation win,
For tempting Gods deare childe to such a sin.
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