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The Ant and the Nightingale

or, Father Hubburds Tales [by Thomas Middleton]

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TO THE TRVE Generall Patron of all Muses, Musitians, Poets, & Picture Drawers, Syr Christopher Clutch-Fist, Knighted at a very hard Peny-worth neither for eating Musk-millions, Hanchouis or C[illeg.] but for a costlier Exployt, and a Hundred pound Feate of Armes; Oliuer Hubburd, brother to the Nine-wayting-Gentlewomen, the Muses, wisheth the decrease of his Lands, & the Encrease of his Legges, that his Calues may hang downe like Ga{rimshawe}s.