EBBA 32101
Huntington Library - Britwell
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A greatter thanks, for Churchyardes
welcome home.
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I Bad not Courte farewell
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for such hot welcome home,
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But glad to leave the costly Courte
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and lyve lyke cuntrye mome.
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From thence I wyllyng went:
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and thought in very deed,
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To make (ere mischeefs fel on heapes)
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a Vertue of a need.
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But my cheeff freend came there,
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to whome for duties sake
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I rode, and did (by destinies lot)
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a further journey make.
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Which freend drew me by love,
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to see the Courte agayne:
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But sens my suddayn comming there
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doth breed in you disdayne:
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I fynd more fumish flames,
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by this fond frantike smoke:
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And see (perhaps) a further fyer,
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then you with craft can cloke.
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But tyll your fyngers burne,
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ye care not what ye doe:
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Well, I wyll helpe to kyndle coales,
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and clap on faggots toe.
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To bryng your handes in heat,
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because the ayre is colde:
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Ka. me: Knave thee: I say no more,
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the proverbe is full olde.
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Yf Crowes of Cheape cry Ka,
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the bawle doth backe rebound:
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For sure I owe not all their towne,
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the halfe of twentie pound.
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And thyrteene candels great,
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o every pound allowe:
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Then call an audite of my debt,
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and cast my charges nowe.
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Yet know I cut tayld Curres,
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can never byght in frame:
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Tyll courage claps them on the backs
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and thrusts them on the game.
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Come on you snarryng whelpes
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I feare your force no whit:
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Though lowd ye bark ye dare not byte
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your teeth are tender yet.
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Baight me lyke Bull at stake,
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I have good flesh and bone:
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To trie it out (as hap shall serve)
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with any Dog alone.
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No other aunswer sure,
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I make: now skan this well:
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But leave the Lob that rayld on me,
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the bable and the bell.
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Write not to this agayne,
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in silence shall ye sit:
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As voyde of aunswer every way,
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as you are voyd of wyt.
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FINIS. (quod) playne Churchyarde.
Imprinted at
London in little Britaine by Alex-
ander Lacy: for Arthour Pepwel, dwel-
lyng in Paules churchyard, at the
signe of the Kynges head.
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