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Of honest Theft. To my good friend Master Samuel Daniel
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 2
PRoud Paulus late my secrecies reuealing,
Hath told I got some good conceits by stealing.
But where got he those double Pistolets,
With which good clothes, good fare, good land he gets
Tush, those, he saith, came by a man of warre.
That brought a Prize of price, from countries farre.
Then, fellow Thiefe, let's shake together hands,
ith both our wares are filcht from forren lands.
You'le spoile the Spaniards, by your writ of Mart:
And I the Romanes rob, by wit, and Art.
Codex Note
Book 2, Epigram 30
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