Social Commentaries
To a great Magistrate, in Re and in Spe
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
THose that for Princes goods do take some paine
(Their goods to whō of right all paines we owe)
eeke some reward for seruice good to gaine,
Which oft their gracious goodnesse doth bestow:
I for my trauell, begge not a reward,
I begge lesse by a sillable, a Ward.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 71
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