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First Line: Try and trust roger, was the word, but now
Last Line: Ever his thighs male then, and his brains she.
Subject(s): Coriat, Thomas (1577-1617); Coriate, Thomas


Try and trust Roger, was the word, but now
Honest Tom Tell-troth puts down Roger: how?
Of travel he discourseth so at large,
Marry, he sets it out at his own charge;
And therein (which is worth his valour too)
Shows he dares more than Paul's churchyard durst do.
Come forth, thou bonny bouncing book then, daughter
Of Tom of Odcombe, that odd jovial author,
Rather his son I should have called thee: why?
Yes, thou wert born out of his travelling thigh
As well as from his brains, and claim'st thereby
To be his Bacchus as his Pallas: be
Ever his thighs male then, and his brains she.





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