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Ad curiosum lectorem
(Me thinks some curious Reader, I hear say...)
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Ad Lectorem
(Reader, there is no biting in my verse...)
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De Philippo Sidneo
(When Nature wrought upon her Mould so well...)
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De Piscatione
(Fishing, if I, a fisher, may protest...)
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De Poeta Martiali
(Martiall, in sooth none should presume to write...)
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Epigram II, xi
(He which to London did convey the pigge...)
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Epitaphium Timonis
(Here I lie sealed under this stone...)
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In Cacum
(Cacus, if any chance on him to call...)
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In Foenatores
(Never so many userers were knowne...)
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In Zoilum
(Zoilus now stinkes, cold, wann, and witherèd...)
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Thomas Bastard was a Church of England clergyman who published epigrams under the title "Chrestoleros." He got into trouble not because of the obscenity or the profanity of some of his poems, but because he cried scandal and named names. He died in debtor's prison.
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