Social Commentaries

Of a Lady early vp

by Sir John Harington 1560–1612

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

Social Commentaries

LEsbya, that wonted was to sleepe till noone,
This other morning stirring was at fiue:
What did she meane, thinke you, to rise so soone?
I doubt we shall not haue her long aliue.
Yes: neuer feare it, there is no such danger,
It seemes vnto her course you be a stranger:
For why, a dauncing, banquetting, and play,
And at Carowsing many a costly cup,
She sate the night before, vntill twas day,
And by that meane, you found her early vp
Oh, was it so? why then the case is cleere,
That she was early vp, and ne're the neere.

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Book 3, Epigram 53

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