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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and nought in all theyr wayes
Not one that doeth good.
and therfore he sayes
That they thyncke there is no god
theyr worckis do declare
For to do the thynge that good is
they haue no maner care.
But what would Dauid saye,
if he were in these dayes,
when men wyll do Ill,
and iustifie theyr yll weyes?
They leaue the good vndone,
and do that yll is.
And then they call that yll good,
what woulde Dauid saye to this?
I know not what Dauid
would saye in this case.
But I knowe that good Esay,
doeth cursse them apase.
Woe, sayth this prophete,
to them that in do call.
That thyng good that euell is
but this is not all.
He sayeth woe to them,
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that call dearckenes lyghte.
Preferryng theyr fansey,
before the worde of myght
If they fynde a thynge wrytten
in Paul, Luke or Iohn
Or any other scripture,
they wyll ther of none:
Except they may easily,
perceyue and se.
That wyth theyr fleshly fansey,
they may make it agre.
All other textis of scripture,
they wyll not stycke to deny.
Yea some of them wyll,
god and his scripture defie.
And say they wyll make merie here
for when they be gone,
They can haue no ioye,
for soule they haue none.
If these menne be not godles
muche maruell haue I,
Well, the cause is the Lordes
lette hym and them trye.
I knowe at the laste
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they shall fynde him to strong.
The daye of his vengeaunce,
wyll not tarye longe.
Notes
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Psal. viii
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Esai. v.