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All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet

Being Sixty and three in Number. Collected into one Volume by the Author [i.e. John Taylor]: With sundry new Additions, corrected, reuised, and newly Imprinted

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Epigram 21. A keeper of honesty.
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Epigram 21. A keeper of honesty.

Deliro should of honesty be full,
And store of wisedome surely is within him.
What though he dally with a painted Trull,
And shee to folly daily seemes to win him?
Yet in him sure is honesty good store,
He vtters but his knauerie with a whore.
For he that spends too free, shall surely want,
Whilst he that spares, will liue in wealthy state:
So wit and honesty, with such are scant,
Who part with it at euery idle rate:
But men must needes haue honesty and wit,
That like Deliro neuer vtter it.