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Posthume Poems of Richard Lovelace
 

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In English.

[Because with bought books, Sir, your study's fraught]

Because with bought books, Sir, your study's fraught
A learned Grammarian you would fain be thought,
Nay then buy Lutes and strings, so you may play
The Merchant now, the Fidler the next day.