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Epigrams of That most wittie and worthie Epigrammatist Mr Iohn Owen

Translated by Iohn Vicars
Vicars, John (1579 or 80-1652)
 
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Epig. 176. Honesty, Dishonesty.

Good-men hate Vice, because they Vertue loue,
That there's few-Good, this, then, doth plainely proue.
Dishonesty is now so high ascended,
And Honesty so Low, so vilipended;
That in these Sin-full, Sin-foule dayes well-nigh,
Tis counted Uicious, to Liue Vertuously.
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