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A quip for an vpstart Courtier.
IT was iust at that time when she Cuckeulds querister beganne to be∣wray Aprill Gentlemen with his neuer changed notes, that I damped with a melancholy humor, went in∣to the fields to cleere vp my wittes with the fresh aire: where solitarie séeking to sollace my selfe I fell in a dreame, and in that drowsie slumber, I wandered into a vale all tapistred with sweet and choice flowers, ther grew many simples whose vertues taught me to be subtill and to thinke nature by hir wéedes warnd men to be wary and by their secret properties to checke wanton and sensuall im∣perfections. Amongst the rest, there was the yellow daffa∣dil, a flowre fit for gelous Dottrels, who through the bew∣tie of their honest wiues grew suspitious, & so proue them∣selues in the end cuckhold Heretikes, there budded out the checkerd (Paunsie) or party coloured Harts ease an herbe sieldome seene, either of such men as are wedded to shrews or of such women as haue hastie husbandes: yet there it grew, and as I stept to gather it, it slipt from me like Tan¦talus fruit that failes their maister. At last, woondring at this secret qualitie, I learned that none can weare it, bee they kings, but such as desire no more then they are borne to, nor haue their wishes aboue their fortunes. Vppon a banke bororing by grew womens weeds, Fenell I mean for flatterers, fit generally for that Sex, sithe while they