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The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington

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10 Of little pitie.

When noble Essex, Blount and Danuers died,
One saw them suffer, that had heard them tried:
And sighing, said; When such braue souldiers dye,
Is't not great pitie, thinke you? No, said I:
There is no man of sense in all the citie,
Will say, 'Tis great, but rather little pitie.