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or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...

Pecke, Thomas

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83. Upon a certain Usurer.

In a good Mood, you lent an Hundred Pound,
To Flava; now ask Use; but on what Ground?

If you get Principal, 'tis an Abuse,
To require more; her Body, paid you Use.
Quod non habet in Ære, luat in Corpore.