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The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington

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32 Of Claudia.

Claudia , to saue a noble Romans blood,
Was offred by some friends that wisht his good,
A iewell of inestimable price;
But she would not be won by this deuice:
For she did take his head, and leaue the iewell.
Was Claudia now more couetous, or cruell?