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A Certayne Linnet was kept vp daintily by a rich man, who much delighted in his sing∣ing. It happened in time of dearth, that ma∣ny poore birds came to the Linnet and asked his almes, but nothing would he giue them, saue of the fragments and broken meate that was lefte, which he cared not for, but the birdes reioysing thereof, eate it vp swéetly.
MOR. It is an yll dysh, which a man will re∣fuse when he is hungry.