An hundred epigrammes. Inuented and made by Iohn Heywood
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An hundred epigrammes. Inuented and made by Iohn Heywood
Author
Heywood, John, 1497?-1580?
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[Imprinted at London :: In Fletstrete in the hous of Thomas Berthelet,
Anno dni 1550]
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Epigrams, English -- Early works to 1800.
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"An hundred epigrammes. Inuented and made by Iohn Heywood." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03171.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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Of a surfette. XIII.
¶ A man from a feuer recouered new,His greedy appetite would not eschew.From meate contagious, wherto he had a lust,But one morsell one euenyng, nedes eat he must.Which foorthwith after brought good approbacion,Of his returne into residiuacion.What cause causeth this (quoth the phisicion?)I know (quoth he) no cause of suspicion.How be it my wonder is great as can be,By what meane this feuer attacheth meMore, for caryng a littell this night last,Than for caryng muche more the night before past.I did eate a capon me euery whitThe last night: after whiche I felt no fit.
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And this night I eete but one bit of fresh beefe,And yet am I shaken with the hourson theefe.
Nowe (quoth the phisicion) aperth the cause whyCapon is holsome, and the beefe contrary.And a litell yll meate geueth sickenesse more foode,Than a littell to muche of meate that is goode.
Sir, I thanke you muche (quoth the pacient)This lesson shall hensfoorth make me to consent,Whan I shall nedes surfet, by vnruly wyll,Rather to surfet on that is good, than yll.
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