Social Commentaries
Of Lynus borrowing
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
LYnus came late to me, sixe crownes to borrow,
And sware God damn him, hee'd repai't to morrow.
I knew his word, as currant as his band,
And straight I gaue to him three crownes in hand;
This I to giue, this he to take was willing,
And thus he gaind, and I sau'd fifteene shilling.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 16
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