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Epigram. 81. In Cosmum.

When Cosmus will auerre a thing for truth,
He sweares, as he's a Gentleman forsooth.
Well, say he tell the most notorious lye,
Yet as he sweares, 'tis true, and that sweare I:
For wot you whence the Gentleman did come,
His father Miller had a golden thum.