632. UPON BRAN. EPIG.
What made that mirth last night? the neighbours say,
That Bran the baker did his breech beray:
I rather think, though they may speak the worst,
'Twas to his batch, but leaven laid there first.
Beray, befoul.
633. UPON SNARE, AN USURER.
Snare, ten i' th' hundred calls his wife; and why?
She brings in much by carnal usury.
He by extortion brings in three times more:
Say, who's the worst, th' exactor or the whore?
634. UPON GRUDGINGS.
Grudgings turns bread to stones, when to the poor
He gives an alms, and chides them from his door.
638. UPON GANDER. EPIG.
Since Gander did his pretty youngling wed,
Gander, they say, doth each night piss a-bed:
What is the cause? Why, Gander will reply,
No goose lays good eggs that is trodden dry.