Social Commentaries
To one that had meate ill drest
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 2
Social Commentaries
KIng Mithridate to poysons so inur'd him,
As deadly poysons, damage none procur'd him.
So you to stale vnsauorie foode and durtie,
Are so inur'd, as famine ne're can hurt yee.
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Book 2, Epigram 28
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