One and thyrtye epigrammes wherein are brieflye touched so manye abuses, that maye and ought to be put away / compiled and imprinted by Robert Crowley, dwellinge in Elye rentes in Holburne.
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- One and thyrtye epigrammes wherein are brieflye touched so manye abuses, that maye and ought to be put away / compiled and imprinted by Robert Crowley, dwellinge in Elye rentes in Holburne.
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- Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.
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- [London :: Robert Crowley],
- 1550.
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- Epigrams, English.
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"One and thyrtye epigrammes wherein are brieflye touched so manye abuses, that maye and ought to be put away / compiled and imprinted by Robert Crowley, dwellinge in Elye rentes in Holburne." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19663.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.
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the plage shall not cease,
He shall be styll plaged
eyther more or lesse.
Christe biddeth all hys,
affirme and denye,
Wyth yea yea, nay naye,
affirmynge no lye.
What so euer ye adde more
(sayeth he) cometh of euyll.
And is of the wycked
suggestion of the deuill.
But we can not talke
wythouten othes plentye
Some sweare by gods nayles
hys herte and hys bodye,
And some sweare his fleshe,
hys bloude and his fote.
And some by his guttes
hys lyfe and herte rote.
Some other woulde seme
all swearynge to refrayne,
And they inuente idle othes
such is their idle brayne.
By cocke and by pye
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and by the gose wynge
By the crosse of the mouse fote
and by sa••ncre chyckyn.
And some sweare by the deuell
suche is their blindenes,
Not knowynge that they cal
these thynges to wytnes.
Of their Consciences in that
they affirme or denye,
So boeth sortes commit
moste abhominable blasphemie.
Notes
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Eccl. xxiii
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Math. v.