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The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington

... digested into fovre bookes: three whereof neuer before published
Harington, John (1560-1612)

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74 To beggers of Bookes.

My friend, you presse me very hard,
my bookes of me you craue;
I haue none, but in Pauls Church-yard,
for mony you may haue.
But why should I my coyne bestow

such toyes as these to buy?
I am not such a foole I trow:
forsooth no more am I.
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