Wit and mirth chargeably collected out of tauernes, ordinaries, innes, bowling greenes, and allyes, alehouses, tobacco shops, highwaies, and water-passages : made vp, and fashioned into clinches, bulls, quirkes, yerkes, quips, and ierkes : apothegmatically bundled vp and garbled at the request of old Iohn Garrets ghost
Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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A Griping extortiouer that had béene a maker of beggers for the space of for∣ty yeares, and by raising rents and oppres∣sion, had vndone many families, 〈◊〉 on a time in anger to a poore fellow that had 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 of his, 〈◊〉 villane, 〈◊〉 thou rob me, I vow and sweare there is not so damned a rogue in the world as thou: to 〈◊〉 the fellow answered, I beséech your good worship remember your selfe, and be good to mee for Gods sake, and for your owne sake.
This Rascals eye is with a beame so blind,
That in the poore mans he a moat can find:
The wolfe himself, a temperate feeder deems
And euery man too much himselfe esteems.
