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Meditations. Memoratiues. By Elizabeth Grymeston

Grymeston, Elizabeth

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To her louing sonne Bernye Grymeston.

[Crush the serpent in the head]

[As a false Louer that thicke snares hath laied]

Simon Grahame to the Authour.

MISCELANEA

THE BALLAD, OR; Some Scurrilous Reflections In Verse, On the PROCEEDINGS of the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS:

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[Crush the serpent in the head]

Crush the serpent in the head,
Breake ill egges yer they be hatched.
Kill bad chickens in the tread,
Fledge they hardly can be catched.
In the rifling stifle ill,
Lest it grow against thy will.