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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- 1550.
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Page [unnumbered]
do declare the mynd.
If these thyngis be true,
as no doubt they be.
What shold we thynk of the womē
that in London we se?
For more wanton lokis,
I dare boldly saye.
Were neuer in Iewish whores,
then in London wines this day
and if the gate and the garmentis,
do shew any thynge.
Our wyues do passe theyr whoris,
in whorlyke deckyng.
I thyncke the abhominable,
whores of the stewes
Dyd neuer more whorelyke,
attyerments vse.
A cappe on hir head,
lyke a sowes mawe.
Such an other facion,
I thyncke the Iewe, neuer saw.
Then fyne geare on the forehead,
set after the new tryk.
Though it cost a crown or two.
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what then? they maye not stycke.
If theyr heyre wyl not take colour
then must thei by newe.
And laye it oute in tussockis,
this thynge is to true.
At ech syde a tussocke,
as bygge as a ball.
A very fayre syght
for a fornicator bestiall,
Hyr face faire paynted,
to make it shyne bryght.
And hyr bosome all bare,
and moste whorelyke dight.
Hyr mydle braced in,
as smale as a wande:
And some bye wastes of wyre
at the paste wyues hande.
A bumbe lyke a barrell
wyth whoopes at the skyrte,
Hyr shoes of such stuffe
that maye touche no dyrte.
Vpon hyr whyte fyngers
manye rynges of golde,
Wyth suche maner stones
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as are most dearlye solde.
Of all their other trifles
I wyll saye nothynge,
Leaste I haue but small thanckes
for thys my writynge.
All modeste Matrons
I truste wyll take my parte,
As for nice whippers wordes
shall not come nye my hert.
I haue tolde them but trueth
let them saye what they wyll,
I haue sayde they be whore like
and so I saye still.
Notes
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* 1.1
Eccl. xxvi
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* 1.2
Eccle. xi