<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546812" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beware the cat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This little book Bevvare the Cat<br>moste pleasantly compil'd:<br>In time obscured was and so,<br>siince that hath been exilde.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Exilde, because perchaunce at first,<br>it shewed the toyes and drifts:<br>Of such as then by wiles and willes,<br>maintained Popish shifts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shifts, such as those in such a time,<br>delighted for to vse:<br>Wherby ful many simple soules,<br>they did ful sore abuse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Abuse? yea sure and that with spight<br>when as the Cat gan tel:<br>Of many pranks of popish preests,<br>bothe foolish mad and fel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fel sure & vaine, if iudgement right<br>appeere to be in place:<br>And so as fel in pleasant wise,<br>this fixion shewes their grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grace? nay sure vngratiousnes,<br>of such and many mo:<br>which may be tolde in these our daies<br>to make vs laugh also.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Also to laugh? nay rather weep,<br>to see such shifts now vsed:<br>And that in euery sorte of men,<br>true vertue is abused.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Abused? yea, and quite downe cast,<br>let vs be sure of that:<br>And therfore now as hath been said,<br>I say beware the Cat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Cat ful pleasantly wil shew,<br>some sleights that now are wrought<br>And make some laugh, which vnto mirth<br>to be constrainde are loght.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lothe? yea, for ouer passing greef,<br>that much bereues their minde:<br>For such disorder as in states,<br>of euery sorte they finde.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Finde? yea, who can now boste but that<br>the Cat wil him disclose?<br>Therfore in midst of mirth (I say)<br>beware the Cat to those.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Baldwin">William Baldwin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546812" data-title="Beware the cat de William Baldwin" data-description="This little book Bevvare the Cat moste pleasantly compil'd: In time obscured was and so, siince that hath been exilde. Exilde, because perchaunce at first, it shewed the toyes and drifts: Of such as then by wiles and willes, maintained Popish shi..."></div> </div> </div>

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