Social Commentaries
Of writing with a Double meaning
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 1
Social Commentaries
A Certaine man was to a Iudge complaining,
How one had written with a Double meaning
Foole, said the Iudge, no man deserueth trouble,
For Double meaning, so he deale not Double.
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Codex Note
Book 1, Epigram 18
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