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Chrestoleros

Seuen bookes of Epigrames written by T. B. [i.e. Thomas Bastard]

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Epigr. 1. de subiecto operis sui.

I speake of wants, of frauds, of policies,
Of manners, and of vertues, and of times,
Of vnthrifts, and of frends, and enimies,
Poets, Physitions, Lawyers, and Diuines,
Of vsurers, buyers, borowers, ritch and poore,
Of theeues, of murtherers by sea and land,
Of pickthankes, lyers, flatterers lesse and more,
Of good and bad, and all that comes to hand,
I speake of hidden and of open things:
Of strange euents, of countries farre and wide,
Of warrs, of captaynes, Nobles, Princes, kings,

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Asia, Europe, and all the world beside.
This is my subiect reader I confesse,
From which I thinke seldome I doe digresse.