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The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington

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Harington, John (1560-1612)

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69 Against Momus.

Lewd Momus loues, mens liues and lines to skan,
Yet said (by chance) I was an honest man.
But yet one fault of mine, he strait rehearses,
Which is, I am so full of toyes and verses.
True, Momus, true, that is my fault, I grant.
Yet when thou shalt thy chiefest vertue vaunt,

I know some worthy Sprites one might entice,
To leaue that greatest Vertue, for this Vice.
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