<p>A Theefe, condemn'd to dye, to execution lead:<lb/> His wofull mother did beholde, for sorowe almoste dead.<lb/> And whilst she kiss'd her sonne, whome she did tender deare:<lb/> The towarde childe did kisse with teeth? and off her nose did teare?<lb/> Whereat, the standers by exclaymed at his acte:<lb/> Then quoth the theefe, my masters marke, I will defend the facte.<lb/> My mother, in my youthe, did with my faults dispence:<lb/> And euermore did like me best, when I did most offence.<lb/> So that, she was the cause that made me doe amisse:<lb/> For if shee had correction vs'de, I had not come to this.<lb/> Wherefore, I did reuenge my wronge, in what I mighte:<lb/> In hope my facte shall mothers warne, that doe behould this sighte.<lb/> For if the Children steale, and come vnto the rope:<lb/> It often is the parentes faulte, for giuing them such scope.</p>

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When led away to his execution, a thief punishes his mother for the leniency that has made him a thief, by biting off her nose when she embraces him one last time

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The indulgence of parents is the bane of children

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