Social Commentaries
Of Faustus, Esquire
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
FAustus, for taking of a wrong possession,
Was by a Iustice bound vnto the Session:
The Cryer the Recognizance doth call,
austus, Esquire, come forth into the Hall.
Out (said the Iudge) on all such foolish Cryers,
Diuels are Carpenters, where such are Squires.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 66
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