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 Satyre 4.

Cheating Droone.

There is a Cheater by profession, That takes more shapes than the Camelion. Sometimes he iets it in a black furd gowne, And that is, when he harbours in the towne. Sometimes a cloake to mantle hoary age, Il fauored like an ape in spightful rage: And then he walks in Paules a turne or two, To see by Cheating what his wit can do. Perhaps heele tell a Gentleman a tale, Will cost him twenty angels in the sale: But if he know his purse well linde within, And by that meanes he cannot finger him, He'le proffer him such far fet curtesie, That shortly in a Tauerne neighbring by, He hath encag'd the silly Gentleman, To whom he proffers seruice all he can. Sir, I perceiue you are of gentle bloud Therefore I will, our Cates be new and good: