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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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39 A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer.
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39 A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer.

A vertuous Dame, that saw a Lawyer rome
Abroad, reprou'd his stay so long from home:
And said to him, that in his absence thence,
His wife might want her due beneuolence.
But he straight quit himselfe of such disgrace,
Answer'd it thus, with putting off a case.
One owes one hundred pounds, now tell me whether
Is best? To haue his paiment all together:
Or take it by a shilling, and a shilling,
Whereby the bagge should be the longer filling?
Sure, said the Dame, I grant 'twere little losse,
If one receiu'd such payments all in grosse.
Yet in your absence this may breede your sorrow,
To heare your wife for want might twelue pence borrow.