Social Commentaries
To Marcus that would borrow
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 2
YOu sent to me, Marcus, for twenty marke:
But to that sute, I would by no meanes harke:
But straight next day, you sent your man in post,
To tell me how a Lord with you would host.
And I must lend, to entertaine this State,
Some Basons, Ewres, and some such other plate.
Are you a Foole? Or thinke you me a foole,
That I should now be set againe to schoole?
Were not my wisedome, worthy to be wondred,
Denying twenty markes, to lend one hundred?
Codex Note
Book 2, Epigram 71
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Harington, John. “To Marcus that would borrow.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/harington/122/.
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Harington, John. “To Marcus that would borrow.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/harington/122/.
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