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A mastif whelp with other ruff-Island-lik Currs fetcht from amongst the Antipedes

Which bite and barke at the fantasticall humorists and abusers of the time [by William Goddard]

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Satire 69.

[Go Ridus teach Tellatus some true skill.]

Go Ridus teach Tellatus some true skill.
To make his Beaste (while he gets vp) stand still,
Hee dares not mount; Ridus how shall he doe?
And when hee'd mount, then startes she to and fro.
Faith helpe him Ridus; hee must haue hir man'd
Hee loues the Beaste that's broken to his hand.
About it man, thou hast the onely'st name,
To make (by riding) wilde things truely tame.