The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington ... digested into fovre bookes: three whereof neuer before published |
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12 Of Sir Philip Sydney.
If that be true the latter Prouerbe sayes,Laudari à laudatis is most praise;
Sydney, thy works in Fames bookes are enrold,
By Princes pennes, that haue thy works extold,
Whereby thy name shall dure to endlesse dayes.
But now, if rules of contrary should hold,
Then I, poore I, were drownd in deepe dispraise,
Whose works base Writers haue so much debased,
That Lynus dares pronounce them all defaced.
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