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The Epistle. 
Since being once at Cambridge taught, 
Of Court ten yeeres I made assate, 
No Musicke then was left vnsaught, 
Such care I had to serue that waite. 
When wove gan slake, then made I change, 
Expulsed* mirth, for Musicke strange. 
My Musicke since hath bene the plough, 
Entangled with some care among, 
The gaine not great, the paine ynough, 
Hath made me sing another song. 
Which song, tf well I may auow, 
L craue wt tudged be by yow. 
Your seruant Thomas Tusser. 
1 Expelled. 1585. 
