AGAINST MENTULA (MAMURRA).

Mentula wooeth much: much wooeth he, be assured.

That is, e'en as they say, the Pot gathers leeks for the pot.

Mentula whores. By the mentule he is be-whored: certes. This is as though

they say the oil pot itself gathers the olives.

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