Social Commentaries
Of a sawcy Cator
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
A Cator had of late some wild-fowle bought,
And when vnto his Master them he brought,
Forthwith the Master smelling nigh the rump,
Said, Out, thou knaue, these sauour of the pump.
The man (that was a rude and sawcy Lout)
What Sir, said he, smell you them thereabout?
Smell your faire Lady there, and by your fauour,
Your fortune may meete with a fulsome sauour.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 22
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