Nicholas Bacon

1509-1579 / England

Of A Scoller And His Boye

A scoller disposed to eate broyled meate
Tooke a colde peece and badde his boye heate it:
Whiche by mistakeinge the boye strayte did eate.
What, quothe his maister, I badde thee not eate it,
But heate it with an H. I trowe thourte madde.
And eate it with my teethe Sir me thoughte you badde.
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