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Epigrams: Divine and Moral

By Sir Thomas Vrchard

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27 The bad returnes of ingrate men should not deterre us from being liberall.

Though you ingrate receivers dayly find,
Let not their faults make you lesse Noble prove;
It not being, th'action of a gen'rous mind
To give and lose so, as to lose, and give;
For that, a churle may doe, in hope of gaine.
But this partakes of a heroick straine.