A collection of the choicest epigrams and characters of Richard Flecknoe being rather a new work, then [sic] a new impression of the old.
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- A collection of the choicest epigrams and characters of Richard Flecknoe being rather a new work, then [sic] a new impression of the old.
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- Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?
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- [London] :: Printed for the author,
- 1673.
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"A collection of the choicest epigrams and characters of Richard Flecknoe being rather a new work, then [sic] a new impression of the old." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70048.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.
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Page 37
•…•…ust beg you'd beg for me, which whilst I do,
•…•…hat is't, but even to make you begger too?
•…•…ut poverty being as honorable now,
•…•…s 'twas when Cincinnatus held the Plough,
•…•…enatots sow'd and reapt, and who had been
•…•…n Carr of Triumph, fetcht the Harvest in.
•…•…hen mightiest Peers do want, nay, what is worse,
•…•…ven greatest Princes live on others Purse.
•…•…nd very Kings themselves are Beggers made,
•…•…o shame for any Sir, to be o'th' trade.