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Epigrams. 145555. Vindicia vim sequitur.Kitt being kick'd and spurr'd, pursues the Law,That doom'd the dammage at twice forty pence.Which, when the party which had wrong'd him saw ;Thought 'twas too great a fine for such offence.Why then, quoth Kitt, if I too much request,Thou maist at any time kick out the rest.556. On Flaccus.Flaccus being young, they said he was a Gull ;Of his simplicity each mouth was full :And pitying him, they'd say, the foolish LadWould be deceived, fure of air he had.His youth is past, now may they turne him loose ;For why? the Gull is grown to be a Goose.557. Per plumas anser.See how young Rufus walks in green each day,As if he ne'r was youthful until now :E're Christmasse next, his green Goose will be gray,And those high burnished plumes in's cap will bow :But you do wrong him, since his purse is full,To call him Goose, that is so young a Gull.t\ f T. 1*"558. Ofjenkin.Jenkin is a rude Clowne, go tell him so ;What need I tell, what he himself doth know?Perhaps he doth not, then he is a sot ;For tell me, what knows he that knows it not ?VOL. II.L