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The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington

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28 To one that had meate ill drest.

King Mithridate to poysons so inur'd him,
As deadly poysons, damage none procur'd him.
So you to stale vnsauorie foode and durtie,
Are so inur'd, as famine ne're can hurt yee.