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Flovvers of Epigrammes

Ovt of sundrie the moste singular authours selected, as well auncient as late writers. Pleasant and profitable to the expert readers of quicke capacitie: By Timothe Kendall
 

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Against the enuious.

Rome lauds, & loues, & reades my works,
and singes them euery where:
Each fist doth hold me clutched fast,
eache bosome me doth beare.
One blusheth so, as red as fyre,
anone as pale as claye:
Anone he lookes astonished,
as one did hym dismaye:
Sometime he mumping mockes and moes,
sometime he doth repine:
Ymarrie, this is that I would:
now please me verses mine.