The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington, Knight digested into foure bookes: three vvhereof neuer before published.

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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.
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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 16, 2024.

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81 In Cornutum.

WHat curld-pate youth is he that sitteth there So neere thy wife, and whispers in her eare, And takes her hand in his, and soft doth wring her, Sliding his ring still vp and downe her finger? Sir, tis a Proctor, seene in both the Lawes, Retain'd by her, in some important cause;

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Prompt and discreet both in his speech and action, And doth her busines with great satisfaction. And thinkest thou so? a horne-plague on thy head: Art thou so like a foole, and wittoll led, To thinke he doth the businesse of thy wife? He doth thy businesse, I dare lay my life.
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