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Licent ["Thy sinns, and haires may no man equall call"]


A Licentious Person.
Thy sinns, and haires may no man equall call
For as thy sins increase, thy haires doe fall.

Antiquarye
If in his studdie hee haue soe much care
To hang all, old strange thinges let his wife beware

Disinherited
Thy father all from thee by his last will
Gaue to the poore thou hast good title still.

Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus
Like Esops fellowe=slaues O Mercury,
Which could doe all things thi fayth is and I
Like Esops selfe, which nothinge: I confesse
I should haue had more fayth if thou hadst lesse.
Thy creditt, lost thy creditt: tis sin to doe
In this case, as thou woldst bee donne vnto,
To beleeue all. Change thy name: Thou art like
Mercury in stealing, but liest like a Greeke|

Phrine
Thy flattering picture Phrine, is like thee
Only in this that yow both painted bee.|

An Obscure Writer
Philo with twelue yeares studie hath been griued
To bee vnderstood. When will hee bee beleeud

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Klockius. so deeply hath sworne, nere more to come
In bawdy howse, that hee dares not goe home.| 		p.44