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A neaste of vvaspes latelie fovnd out and discouered in the Law-countreys

yealding as sweete hony as some of our English bees [by William Goddard]

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[Were I a captaine and might choose my men]

Were I a captaine and might choose my men
Flattrers and Parrasits I would choose then
Valyant they bee; they neuer feare the shott
Tha're forwardst still when seruice is most hott
They feare noe shot. Yet such men Flattrers bee
As still yf anie scapes, they scape shott-free
Mistake mee not; misconster not this shott
Th'are shott-free, when, service in Tavern's hott.