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If in his study Ham̄on hath such care [337] |
To hang all old things, Let his wife beware |
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[Transcriptions are not provided for noncanonical poems, elegies on Donne by other authors, or prose compositions.] |
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Thy father all thee b by his last will |
Gaue to the poore, Thou hast good title still |
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Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers |
And yet thou sayst thou hast supt like a king |
Like Nebuchadnezar with Grasse and flowers |
A Sallet worse then Spanish dieting |
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Mercurius Gallo-belgicus |
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Like Esops fellow slaues (ô Mercury) |
That could doe all things thy fayth is, and I |
Like Esops selfe wch nothing. I confesse |
I should haue had more fayth if thou hadst lesse. |
Thy Credit lost thy credit; tis Sinne to doe, |
In this case, as thou wouldst bee donne vnto |
To beleeue all; change thy name, thou art like |
Mercury in stealing and ly'st like a Greeke |
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Thy flattring picture Phryne is like thee |
Onely in this that you both paynted bee
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[CW: Philo___] |