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Epigrams. 3 7Wherefore them blam'st not onely them, but allTheir Sex into disgrace and scorn dost call,Yet if the thing thou wilt consider well,Thou wilt thy malice, and this rage expell,For when the three were all alike 't should seemThy stars gave thee the Cuckolds anadem,If thou wert born to be a wittoll, canThy wife prevent thy fortune ? foolish man !That woman which a Hellen is to thee,.Would prove another mans Penelope.87. On the ensuring office.Linus met Thuscus on the burse by chance,And swore he'd drink a health to th'heir of FranceFor on th'exchange for currant news 'twas toldFrance had a Daulphin not yet seaven dayes old,Thuscus excus'd himselfe, and saicl he mustBy all meanes go to th'ensuring office first,And so ensure some goods, he doubted were,Unlikely else e're to his hands appeare,Linus reply'd, He with thee then, for IWould have my lands ensur'd to me in feeWhich otherwise I doubt, I never shallFrom debt and morgage ere redeem at all.88. On Clodius Albinus.Clodius great cheer for supper doth prepare,Buyes Chickens, Rabbets, Phesants, and a hare,