Wit restor'd in several select poems not formerly publish't.

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Title: Wit restor'd in several select poems not formerly publish't.
Author: Mennes, John, Sir, 1599-1671.
Publication: London :: Printed for R. Pollard, N. Brooks, and T. Dring, and are to be sold at the Old Exchange, and in Fleetstreet,; 1658.
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Subject terms: Humorous poetry.; Burlesques.
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In Richardum quendam, Divitem, Avarum.

DEvising on a time what name I might
Best give unto a dry illiberall chuffe,
After long search on his owne name I light,
Nay then (said I) No more, I have enough;
His name and nature do full well agree
For's name is Rich and hard; and so is he.