Social Commentaries
Of a slaunder
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 3
Social Commentaries
ON Lesbya, Lynus raysed had a slander,
For which whē as she thought to take an actiō
Yet by request she tooke this satisfaction,
That being drunke, his tongue did idly wander:
Came this from Viderit vtilitas?
Or else from this, In Vino veritas?
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Codex Note
Book 3, Epigram 52
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