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Or two centvries of epigrammes. Written by William Gamage

Gamage, William

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Epig. 13. On the whore in Graine, Helen of Greece.

One staine, we read, did staine thy sunnie face;
But thy stain'd life, thy corps did more disgrace.
This one spot did not more, thy sweet face marre,
Then thy lust Ilion did; in Troian warre.
Thinke not therefore it shame to haue a staine:
But count it shame, to be a whore in Graine.