Social Commentaries
Against long suits in Law
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 2
Social Commentaries
IN Court of Wards, Kings Bench, & Common place
Thou follow'd hast one sute, this seu'n yeeres space.
Ah wretched man, in mothers wombe accurst,
Thou could'st not rather lose thy sute at furst.
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Codex Note
Book 2, Epigram 47
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