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The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington

... digested into fovre bookes: three whereof neuer before published

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8 Of Lesbia, a great Lady.

Lesbia doth laugh to heare sellers and buyers
Cald by this name, Substantiall occupyers:
Lesbia, the word was good while good folke vsd it,
You mard it that with Chawcers iest abusd it:
But good or bad, how ere the word be made,
Lesbia is loth perhaps to leaue the trade.