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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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61 Of Leda's vnkindnesse.

Faire Leda late to me is growne malicious,
At all my workes in prose or verse repining:
Because my words, she saith makes men suspitious,
That she is to the Puritanes inclining.
Leda, what ere I said, I did suspect,
Thou wert not pure enough, in one respect.