Epigrams of all sorts, made at divers times on several occasions by Richard Flecknoe.

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Epigrams of all sorts, made at divers times on several occasions by Richard Flecknoe.
Author
Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?
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London :: Printed for the author, and Will. Crook ...,
1670.
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Epigrams.
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"Epigrams of all sorts, made at divers times on several occasions by Richard Flecknoe." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39710.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.

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Page 51

Of Friends and Foes.

TWo Painters (friend and foe) once went a∣bout To paint Antigones whose one eye was out, which t'on to shew, and t'other for to hide; That turn'd his blinde, and this his better side. Just so 'twixt Friends and Foes men are exprest, By halfs set forth, whilst they conceal the rest: None, as their Friends or Foes, depaint them woud, Being ever half so bad, or half so good.
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