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A Strappado for the Diuell

Epigrams and Satyres alluding to the time, with diuers measures of no lesse Delight. By MISOSUKOS[Greek], to his friend PHILOKRATES[Greek] [by Richard Brathwait]
Brathwait, Richard (1588?-1673)

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LOVES LABYRINTH:
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To all vnhappy Louers.
 
The Author vpon his infant Poeme.
 
Upon the Presse.
 
The Argument of Pyramus and Thysbe.
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Pyramus and Thysbe.
 
Riddle me this.
 
To the equall Reader.
 
To the Captious Reader.

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To the equall Reader.

If that thy nature answere to thy name,
Thou in thy iudgement wilt expresse the same
Which I entitle thee, and hate to be
A squintei'd Critick to misconster me.
Hows'ere: be what thou wilt, if Equall, finde
Lines correspondent to thy Equall minde:
If rough (for all my smoothnesse thou hast heard)
Thou'se heare far rougher Satires afterward.
For if these ierks so lightly laid on smart,
Thoule finde rare whipping cheere i'th Second part.
Where Furies run diuision on my song:
Patience a while, and thou shalt haue't ere long.
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