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The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington

... digested into fovre bookes: three whereof neuer before published

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71 To a great Magistrate, in Re and in Spe.

Those that for Princes goods do take some paine
(Their goods to whō of right all paines we owe)
Seeke some reward for seruice good to gaine,
Which oft their gracious goodnesse doth bestow:
I for my trauell, begge not a reward,
I begge lesse by a sillable, a Ward.