Social Commentaries

Of Marcus courtesie

by Sir John Harington 1560–1612

From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 3

Social Commentaries

WHen I some little purchase haue in hand,
Straight Marcus kindly offers me his band.
I tell him, and he takes it in great snuffe,
His is a Falling Band, I weare a Ruffe.
But if you maruaile I his helpe refuse,
And meane herein some meaner mans to vse:
The cause is this, I meane, within a weeke,
That he of me like courtesie will seeke.

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Book 3, Epigram 31

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