Emblemes and Epigrames Psal: Quum defecerit virtus mea, ne derelinquas me, Domine. [A.D. 1600, by Francis Thynne ... ]: Edited by F. J. Furnivall |
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(23) Cham.
In all the course of thy vnhappie yeares,noe kinde of vertue in thy life appeares;
ffor thow art Cham, or ells Chamms wicked brother:
he did deride his father; and thow thy mother;
his curse was greate; and soe will fall to thee,
that scoffes at her which still should honnored bee.
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