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If I be not beguild,

Here lies Mr. Child.

(Ouerbury recit.)45

I will be soe bolde as to give the Assise the lye:

(Ch. Dauers in argument.)

"I came rawe into the world, but I would not goe out rosted," said one that ment to be noe martyre. (Curle nar.)

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fo. 12^b. Jan. 1601.

This last Christmas the Conny-catchers would call themselves Country-gentlemen at dyce.

When a gentlewoman told Mr. Lancastre he had not bin soe good as his word, because he promised shee should be gossip to his first child (glaunceing at his bastard on his landres), "Tut," said he, "you shall be mother to my next, if you will."