Social Commentaries
Of a Bequest without a Legacy
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 2
Social Commentaries
IN hope some Lease or Legacy to gaine,
You gaue old Titus yeerely ten pound pension.
Now he is dead, I heare thou dost complaine,
That in his will of thee he made no mention.
Cease this complaint that shewes thy base intention.
He left thee more, then some he lou'd more deerely,
For he hath left thee ten pound pension yeerely.
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Codex Note
Book 2, Epigram 73
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