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Two centvries of epigrammes

Written by Iohn Heath

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Epigram. LXXIII. A Peccadill.

This word (a Peccadill) as I was taught,
Sounds in it selfe nought but a little fault.


If it encrease so as it does beginne,
This little fault will grow to a great sinne.