Social Commentaries
Of one that gaue a Benefice
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 3
Social Commentaries
A Squire of good account, affirm'd he went,
A learned man a Liuing to present:
But yet that Squire, in this did breake no square,
He purposed thereof to keepe a share;
o set two sonnes to schoole, to make them Clarks,
He doth reserue each yeere an hundred markes.
Ah, said the Priest, this card is too too cooling,
I set your sonnes; nay, they set me to schooling
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Codex Note
Book 3, Epigram 27
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