Flovvers of epigrammes, out of sundrie the moste singular authours selected, as well auncient as late writers. Pleasant and profitable to the expert readers of quicke capacitie: by Timothe Kendall, late of the Vniuersitie of Oxford: now student of Staple Inne in London

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Title: Flovvers of epigrammes, out of sundrie the moste singular authours selected, as well auncient as late writers. Pleasant and profitable to the expert readers of quicke capacitie: by Timothe Kendall, late of the Vniuersitie of Oxford: now student of Staple Inne in London
Author: Kendall, Timothy, fl. 1577.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: [By John Kingston] in Poules Churche-yarde, at the signe of the Brasen Serpent, by Ihon Shepperd,; 1577.
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TIMOTHE KENDAL to the Reader.
MArtial is muche mislikt, and lothde,
of modest mynded men:
For leude lasciuious wanton woorks,
and woords whiche he doeth pen.
In deede, fonde filthie speaches foule,
faire maners much defile:
Wherefore the learned doe but well,
to count his verses vile.
Yet though his verses some be vile,
yet some doe muche auaile:
And though his matters some be fonde,
yet some of follie faile.
His woorks are like a garden good,
with weedes muche ouergrowen:
Lo reader here the fragrant flowers,
the weedes▪ awaie are throwen.
The best bereft, the beastly left:
lo reader here to thee,
The daintie Marrowe offered is:
let this thy breakefast bee.
Accept this simple Maribone,
for breakefast I thee praie:
So maiest thou better cheare obtaine,
of me an other daie.