Epigrams of That most wittie and worthie Epigrammatist Mr Iohn Owen Translated by Iohn Vicars |
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Epig. 176. Honesty, Dishonesty.
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Epig. 176. Honesty, Dishonesty.
Good-men hate Vice, because they Vertue loue,That there's few-Good, this, then, doth plainely proue.
Dishonesty is now so high ascended,
And Honesty so Low, so vilipended;
That in these Sin-full, Sin-foule dayes well-nigh,
Tis counted Uicious, to Liue Vertuously.
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