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Chrestoleros

Seuen bookes of Epigrames written by T. B. [i.e. Thomas Bastard]

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Epigr. 3.

Monsters of men are many now a day,
Which still like Vultures on the dead do pray,
And as the Phœnix doth in wondred wise,
So they, but out of others ashes rise.