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Epigrams
If in his study Ham̄on hath such care [337]
To hang all old things, Let his wife beware
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Thy father all thee b by his last will
Gaue to the poore, Thou hast good title still
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Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers
And yet thou sayst thou hast supt like a king
Like Nebuchadnezar with Grasse and flowers
A Sallet worse then Spanish dieting
Mercurius Gallo-belgicus
Like Esops fellow slaues (ô Mercury)
That could doe all things thy fayth is, and I
Like Esops selfe wch nothing. I confesse
I should haue had more fayth if thou hadst lesse.
Thy Credit lost thy credit; tis Sinne to doe,
In this case, as thou wouldst bee donne vnto
To beleeue all; change thy name, thou art like
Mercury in stealing and ly'st like a Greeke
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Thy flattring picture Phryne is like thee
Onely in this that you both paynted bee

[CW: Philo___]