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Follies Anatomie

or Satyres and Satyricall Epigrams. With a compendious History of Ixion's Wheele. Compiled by Henry Hutton

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[Should I commend you Satyres? faith no, tush]
  
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[Should I commend you Satyres? faith no, tush]

Should I commend you Satyres? faith no, tush,
'Tis an old Prouerbe, Good wine needes no bush.
If ye demerit earth's condigner laude,
Let grauer censures grace you with applaude.
If ye deserue no Poets Lawrell stem,
Be ye base Orphans, I disclaime ye then.
To praise good works 'twere shame, indigne, and vile,
For none but counterfeits do prayse their stile.
Good, is but good; and no man can more say:
To praise the bad, makes Satyrists inuay.
Goe seeke your fortunes, be it good or bad
If bad, I'le greiue; if good, I shall be glad.
Henry Hutton.