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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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76 Of father Peleus stable.

Old Peleus burn'd a Stable to the ground,
Which now to build doth cost three hundred poūd
That's but one Gennets price with him, no force,
A Stable? No: He did but lose a horse.