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The movs-trap

[by Henry Parrot]

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Ad Curiosum.

And why the Mouse-trap, quoth my Caualyer?
and looking further (saies) What haue we heere?
Faith neither Phisicke, nor Philosophy,
affected Proze, or learned Poesie,
The home-spun russet, suteth some that weare it,
and many braue it out, that ill may beare it:
I neither treat of stout Themistocles,
nor vse I choise or quaint Hiperboles;
Onely vnfold by way of borrowed rime,
some few fantasticke humors of our time:
Wherein (if ought thats pleasing) may content thee
take it: If not, suppose no harme was meant thee,
and good inough.