The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington, Knight digested into foure bookes: three vvhereof neuer before published.
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- Title
- The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington, Knight digested into foure bookes: three vvhereof neuer before published.
- Author
- Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by G[eorge] P[urslowe] for Iohn Budge: and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Greene Dragon,
- 1618.
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- Epigrams, English.
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"The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington, Knight digested into foure bookes: three vvhereof neuer before published." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02647.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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••ant meanes: which comes, he sayes, in generalitie,
••ecause of these same To••••••••ts, and Pluralitie;
Affirming as a sentence full discust,
One Clergie man haue but one liuing must.
••ut he, besides his sundry ciuill offices,
••ath brought in fee, fiue fat Impropriations,
••welue Patronages rights, or Presentations,
••ll which he keepes, yet preaches not nor prophesies.
••el Cosmus hold thy tong, else some wil scoffe at this.
Thoud'st haue vs thinke a Priest should haue but one,
Wee'le thinke, nay say, nay sweare thou shouldst haue none.
••l sutes it thee to blame, then for non Residents,
That giuest thereof such foule and shamefull Presi∣den••••.