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 June 18, 2024.
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to succoure their nede.
Reuertions of farmes
are bought on eche syde,
And the old tenaunt must pay well
if he wil abide.
And where the father payd a penye
and a Capon or twayne,
The sonne must paye ten pounde
thys passeth my brayne
Well, let these forestallers
repente them betime,
Leaste the clarke of the market
be with them ere prime.
For he when he commeth
will punishe them all,
That do anie neadefull thinge
ingrosse or forestall.
For well I wotte this
when he wente laste away
He sente vs his seruaunte
and thus did he saye.
* 1.1Se that amonge you
none seke his owne gayne,
But profite eche other
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wyth trauayle and payne.
Notes
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* 1.1
i. Cor. x.