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Quodlibets, lately come over from New Britaniola, Old Newfoundland. Epigrams and other small parcels both Morall and Divine

The first foure Bookes being the Authors owne: the rest translated out of that Excellent Epigrammist, Mr Iohn Owen, and other rare Authors: With two Epistles of that excellently wittie Doctor, Francis Rablais: Translated out his French at large. All of them Composed and done at Harbor-Grace in Britaniola, anciently called Newfound-Land. By R. H. [by Robert Hayman]
  

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94 This Worlds Wisdome.

Who's rich? The wise. Who's poore? The foolish man.
If I were wise, I should haue riches than.
Who's wise? The rich. And who's a foole? The poore.
If I were rich, I should be wise therefore.