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The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington

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51 Of good Sauce.

I went to suppe with Cinna tother night,
And to say true (for giue the diuell his right)
Though scant of meat we could a morsell get,
Yet there with store of passing sauce we met.
You aske what sauce, where pittance was so small?
This, Is not hunger the best sauce of all?