Philomythie or Philomythologie wherein Outlandish Birds, Beasts, and Fishes, are taught to speake true English plainely. By Tho: Scot ... The second edition much inlarged |
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Dedicated to the graue, reuerend,
and iudicious Knight, Sr. Robert
Gardiner, sometime Lord Iustice of Ireland.
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Dedicated to the graue, reuerend, and iudicious Knight, Sr. Robert Gardiner, sometime Lord Iustice of Ireland.
So many men presse now for place in State,Deseart and Worth cannot come neere the gate:
But happy were it for the State and Vs,
If we (as Rome did) sought for Curius.
There should we finde him, farre from Court, with you
Perhaps a Gardiner, or perhaps at Plow.
Yet euen the same which Pyrrhus did withstand,
Samnites, and Sabines ruld, as you Ireland.
Then should our Kings cleare Iustice shine too bright
To suffer potent wrong, cloude impotent right.
Then should this act of Iustice so aboue
All presidents, make others like it mooue.
But wretched we, whilst few the doore can passe
Of high preferment, but the Laden Asse.
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