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                         COCKE LORELLES BOTE.


                  One Hundred and One Copies Printed,
                      One of which is on Vellum.




                          Cocke Lorelles Bote

                           A SATIRICAL POEM

           _From an unique copy printed by Wynkyn de Worde_

                                 “Come begin;
               And you the judges bear a wary eye.”

                                          _Hamlet._


                               ABERDEEN
                       J. & J. P. EDMOND & SPARK
                             MDCCCLXXXIV.




PREFACE.


The singularly interesting fragment of early English literature known as
Cocke Lorelles Bote, is a satirical poem of four hundred and fourteen
lines, in which various classes of society, chi