Rubbe, and a great cast Epigrams. By Thomas Freeman, Gent.

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Rubbe, and a great cast Epigrams. By Thomas Freeman, Gent.
Author
Freeman, Thomas, b. 1590 or 91.
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Imprinted at London :: [By Nicholas Okes], and are to bee sold [by L. Lisle] at the Tigers Head,
1614.
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Epigrams, English.
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"Rubbe, and a great cast Epigrams. By Thomas Freeman, Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01256.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.

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EPIGRAM 45.

Bis duo notani quae non possunt reuocari, Virginitas, Tempus, Verbum dictum{que}, Voluptas.
SCaurus his life voluptuously hath led;* 1.1 Ruffinus tongue hath walk't immodestly; Lusilla she hath lost her maiden, head; And Thuscus spent his time in vanity: But now the Blacke Oxe treadeth on their feet, They find their faults, and 'gin to feare their fate,

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And like the Troians they haue after-wit, And would be wise when now it is too late: For who can call back Words already spoken, Lost time, past Pleasure, Virgin-bands once broken?

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