Social Commentaries

Another of asking nothing

by Sir John Harington 1560–1612

From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 1

Social Commentaries

SOme thinke thee Lynus of a Fryer begotten,
For still you beg where nothing can be gotten;
Yet oft you say, for so you haue been taught,
ir, grant me this, tis but a thing of nought.
And when indeed you say so, I belieue it,
As nought, vnto a thing of nought I giue it.
Thus with your begging, you but get a mock,
And yet with begging little, mend your stock.
Leaue begging Lynus for such poore rewards,
Else some will begge thee in the Court of Wards.

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Book 1, Epigram 10

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