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Of Madam Dondrages with her faire brest
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 1
A Fauorite of Charles late King of France,
Disporting with the King one day by chance,
Madam Dondrages came among the rest,
All bare, as still she vsed her brest.
The King would needs haue notice of his Minion;
Of this free Dame what was his franke opinion?
I say, and dare affirme, my liege, quoth he,
That if the crupper like the pertrell be,
A King a Loue I worthy can account,
Vpon so braue a trapped beast to mount.
Codex Note
Book 1, Epigram 24
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