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His first nam'd freinds he's confident will beare With this digression, to whom his carefull feare 20 Bowes & intreats their liking which once granted Will shew, they mist not any thing they wanted Epilogue If your vneasie seats haue tyr'd you so You're glad to leaue 'hem, there's none of you but know That haue a child, you loue to see it clipt In dandling armes, & if the authour slipt Into a fault because his actiue pen 5 Begott this child, & 'tis the loue of men To wish their heires long-liu'd he hopes you'l please T'exuse his errour, which is a disease Of loue to his own offspring, & so ties Him to be thus indulgent.

After this fairly standard Ars Moriendi topos, he complains further that 'Ther is no wight pat to the indigent / Puttith his helply hand' (507-08) then wretchedly remarks 'slipt out of mynde / I am' (508-09, unique to Hoccleve).

This Chain has from the Beginning, remained so firm and strong, that it has never once broke or slipt since it was first made; and we, on our Parts, shall endeavour that it remain so, unshaken, as long as the Sun and Moon shall endure.

If he had been as you and you as he, You would have slipt like him; but he, like you, Would not have been so stern.

" The England and Lions threequarter slipt a disc in training and missed the final Lions Test.