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The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington

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55 Of Mile the glutton.

Milo with haste to cram his greedy gut,
One of his thumbs vnto the bone had cut:
Then straight it noysed was about by some,
That he had lost his stomack with his thumb.
To which one said, No worse hap fall vnto him:
But if a poore man finde it, 'twill vndoe him.