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Chapter VIII: Part 4

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Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation)
(From lowest Club, to that call'd Royal,)
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He'el feed on a Jest, that is broke with your Wind,
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By Swine who nee'r provide Bumfodder
_spelling unchanged (quoted in editor's introduction)_
E'er I that Suit procure.
_text has comma at end_
Professor of Dulness and Bombast. Price 6 _d._
_text reads "Picre"_

Further Notes:

Why are _Doll_'s Teeth so white, and _Susan_'s black?
The Reason soon is known.
_Doll_ buys her Teeth which she doth lack,
But _Susan_ wears her own.

This verse is a translation of Martial V.43:

_Thais habet nigros, niveos Laecania dentes
Quae ratio est? Emptos haec habet, illa suos._

_P. S. Quintus_

Pope Sixtus V (= Quintus).

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