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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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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Kendall, Timothy, fl. 1577.
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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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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04794.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.

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Of Pope Ione the 8. and of the maner of makyng the Pope.

POpe Ione in mannes apparell went, and faind her self a manne: And by this straunge disguisyng, she at last the Popedome wanne. At last she plaied a piuishe part, and let her seruaunt ride In saddle hers: she trauailed, brought forthe her child, and died. When as the Carnals (Cardinalls I would saie if I could) When thei perceiude this filthy facte, thei all agreed none should Be Pope created after that, vnlesse he had his stones: Thei would not haue ye Popedome staynde, with any more Pope Iones. But now adaies at Rome we see, this custome waxeth colde: What is the cause thei grope not now, as thei were wont of olde? The cause is, now thei knowe before,

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that thei are men in deede: For now in euery corner swarme their whores, and bastarde breede.
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