Poems consisting of Epistles and Epigrams, Satyrs, Epitaphs and Elogies, Songs and Sonnets With variety of other drolling Verses upon several Subjects. Composed by no body must know whom, and are to be had every body knows where, and for somebody knows what [by John Eliot] |
To a great Lord that upbraided his Servant with Poverty.
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Poems consisting of Epistles and Epigrams, Satyrs, Epitaphs and Elogies, Songs and Sonnets | ||
To a great Lord that upbraided his Servant with Poverty.
Your Lordship did object upon a timeMy poverty against me as a crime,
You blamed me that I borrowed had of those,
Who to your knowledge were my greatest foes;
It had been nobly done Sir to relieve me,
Rather then with my wants and Foes to grieve me
But in distress give me a foe that lends,
Before a thousand faithless fruitless friends.
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