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SIMON VALLAMBERTVS Avalon.
To a couetous old Carle.
Although thy horie siluer heares,as white as Lillies showe:
Although thou Pylius passe in yeares,
that liued long ago:
Although yr teeth (whiche thou hast bought)
nor crust can eate nor crumme:
Although vnto the brinke thou art
of Stygian boate now come:
Yet naytheles whole Coffers cramd
with coine, thou still dost craue:
And bags byg bolne with mony muche
thou still desirst to haue.
O dotyng sire, these heapes of coine
requires not Charon fell:
One silly pennie for his fare
contenteth Charon well.
Of Codrus.
Into a princely Pallace proude(built braue with Marble stone)
With ragged tattered torne attire
poore Codrus would haue gonne.
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quoth Codrus no, and why?
The gods are nakt, and none but nakt
must go to heauen perdie.
To Pansophus.
Though Pansophus thou pleasest noneno maruell tis, and why?
Thou pleasest ouermuch thy selfe
proud Pansophus perdy.
To a Niggarde.
All thyng is dere thou saist,wine, vittayl, corne, and graine:
Yet miser vile well stored thou
with all thyng dost remaine.
So thou to no man deere,
selst deere vnto the poore:
Alacke thou saist all things are deere,
deere must I sell therefore.
Ah, sell thou miser as thou maist
and shunne thou Vsury:
So shalt thou be to all men deere
and dere to none perdie.
To a backbiter that was balde.
Baldsconse , I nothyng hauevnto thee for to say:
But sure I laude thy locks which are
gone from thy hed away.
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To Achilles Combanus.
Bright Glory rayngyng here and there,to seeke the shinyng bowre
Where Vertue dwelt, hapt on thy house,
of Vertue fragrant flower.
And so when Glory did perceaue,
that Vertue dwelt with thee:
Here will I rest (quoth he) thy guest,
I will Combanus be.
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