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The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington

... digested into fovre bookes: three whereof neuer before published
Harington, John (1560-1612)

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52 Of a slaunder.

On Lesbya, Lynus raysed had a slander,
For which whē as she thought to take an actiō.

Yet by request she tooke this satisfaction,
That being drunke, his tongue did idly wander:
Came this from Viderit vtilitas?
Or else from this, In Vino veritas?
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