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.
Author
Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.
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[London :: Robert Crowley],
1550.
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Epigrams, English.
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Of Brawlers.

A Brawler that loueth to breake the kinges peace, And seke his owne sorowe his fansye to please. Is lyke a curre Dogge that setteth vpon Eche mastyfe and hounde that he maye light on. He getteth hym hatered of euerye manne And meteth with his maister euer nowe and than. To hurte other menne he taketh greate payne: He turneth no manne

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to profite or gayne. Except it be the Surgian or the Armorer The Baylife, the constable or the Iayler. This is a worthye membre in a commune wealthe, That to worcke other wo will lose his owne health. What other men will iudge I can not tell But if he scape Tiburne I thinke he wyll hange in hell.
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