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The Works in Verse and Prose

(including hitherto unpublished Mss.) of Sir John Davies: for the first time collected and edited: With memorial-introductions and notes: By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In three volumes

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VIII. A Riddle vpon a Coffin.

There was a man bespake a thing,
Which when the owner home did bring,
He that made it did refuse it;
And hee that brought it would not vse it;
And he that hath it doth not know,
Whether hee hath it, yea or no.
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From the “Philosopher's Banquet, second edit. 1614, 8 vo., p. 261.