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Chrestoleros

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

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Epigr. 38. In Caium.

So thy rare vertues fixed in mine eyes,
Thy gentle nature Caius, and thy minde.
So fraught with learning and good qualities:
That thou art ritch this onely fault I finde.
When thou wast poore thy vertues me releeued.
Since thou art ritch, of both I am depriued.