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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Of the colier of Croydon.

IT is sayde that in Croydon there dyd sometyme dwell, A Colier that did all other Coliers excell. For his riches thys Colier myghte haue bene a knight But in the order of knighthode he hadde no delyght. Woulde god all our knightes did minde colinge no more, Than this Colier did knyghtyng

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as is sayde before. For whan none but pore coliars dyd wyth coales mell, At a reasonable pryce They dyd theyr coales sell. But sence oure knighte Coliars haue hadde the firste sale We haue payde muche money and had fewe sackes to tale. A lode that of late yeres for a royall was solde, Wyll coste nowe .xvi.s. of syluer or golde. God graunte these men grace their pollynge to refrayne. Or els brynge them backe to theyr olde state agayne. And especiallye the Colier that at Croydon doth sell, For men thynke he is cosen to the Coliar of hel.
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