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Of Misacmos his successe in a suite
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 2
MIsacmos hath long time a suter beene,
To serue in some neere place about the Queene
n which his friends to work his better speede,
Doe tell her Highnesse, as tis true indeede,
That hee's a man well borne and better bred,
In humane studyes seene, in stories read,
Adding vnto an industry not small,
Pleasant conceit and memory withall.
And chiefely that he hath beene from his youth,
A zealous searcher of Eternall Truth:
Now neuer wonder, he his suite doth misse:
What I haue told you, that the reason is.
Codex Note
Book 2, Epigram 34
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