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AN EPIGRAM ON JOHN MARSTON by JOSEPH HALL

First Line: I ASK'T PHISITIONS WHAT THEIR COUNSELL WAS
Last Line: WHETHER THOU BE A MAD DOG, OR A MANKIND ASSE.
Subject(s): ANIMALS; ASSES & MULES; DOGS; MANKIND; MULES; HUMAN RACE;
I Ask't Phisitions what their counsell was
For a mad dogge, or for a mankind Asse?
They told me though there were confections store
Of Poppie-seede, and soueraigne Hellebore,
The dog was best cured by cutting & kinsing,
The Asse must be kindly whipped for winsing.
Now then S.K. I little passe
Whether thou be a mad dog, or a mankind Asse.



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