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EPIG. 37.

[An honest Vicker and a kind consort]

An honest Vicker and a kind consort,
That to the Alehouse friendly would resort,
To haue a game at Tables now and than,
Or drinke his pot as soone as any man.
As faire a gamster, and as free from braull,
As euer man should need to play withall:
Because his hostesse pldg'd him not carouse,
Rashly in choller did for sweare her house.
Taking the glasse, this was the oath he swore,
Now by this drinke, He nere come hither more
But mightely his Hostesse did repent,
For all her guestes to the next Alehouse went,
Following their Vickers steps in euery thing,
He led the parrish euen by a string.
At length his auncient Hostesse did complaine,
She was vndone, vnlesse he came againe,
Desiring certaine friendes of hers and his,
To vse a pollecie, which should be this:
Because with cōming he should not forsweare him,
To saue his oath, they on their backes might beare him
Of this good course the Vicker well did thinke,
And so they all waies carried him to drinke.
FINIS.