Social Commentaries
To beggers of Bookes
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
MY friend, you presse me very hard,
my bookes of me you craue;
I haue none, but in Pauls Church-yard,
for mony you may haue.
But why should I my coyne bestow
such toyes as these to buy?
am not such a foole I trow:
forsooth no more am I.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 74
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