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Epigram. 55. In duos letigiosos.

Ficus hath three-farthings-worth of wrong
Done to him by his neighbour Clunnico,
For which he vowes to be reueng'd ere long;
That to make good, to law he meanes to goe:
And Clunnico, as stubborne, will not shrinke
What ere it cost: by this the Lawyer's feed,
Who nimbly purses their dis-powched chinke,
And hearts them both, that they be not agreed:


They (like two dogges) lye fighting for the bone,
The which a third, the Lawyer, feeds vpon.