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Epigram. 34. Quot bipedes aurum.

VVhat ordinary Gallant now but goes
On Spanish leather haltred with a Rose,
Circling with gold, or siluer-spangled lace:
'Tis strange how times haue altered the case.
Lesse cost, then's now bestow'd on either foote,
Did buy K. William Rufus a whole sute.