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 May 18, 2024.

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EPIGRAM. 55.

In duos letigiosos.

FIcus hath three-farthings-worth of wrong Done to him by his neighbour Clunnico, For which he vowes to be reueng'd ere long; That to make good, to law he meanes to goe: And Clunnico, as stubborne, will not shrinke What ere it cost: by this the Lawyer's feed, Who nimbly purses their dis-powched chinke, And hearts them both, that they be not agreed:

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They (like two dogges) lye fighting for the bone, The which a third, the Lawyer, feeds vpon.
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