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OF EPIGRAMS. 33
THAT THE IMPUDICITY OF A LASCIVIOUS WOMAN STAINES
BUT HER OWNE, AND NOT HER HUSBANDS HONOUR.
Though of her facred matrimonial! oath
Your wife make no account, if what be due
To a wife hufband you perforate ; ilie doth
Bring to her felfe difcredit, not to you ;
For others' faults can no dilgrace impart you,
Though to your lofle they tend, and make you ibrrie,
No more then you can by another's vertue,
Though it breed joy and gaine, reape any glorie :
'Tis our owne vertu' and vice muft praile or blame us,
And either make us glorious or infamous.
WHO ARE REALLY RICH, AND WHO POORE.
He that agreeth with his povertie
Is truly rich ; while, on the other part,
He's poore, who 'midft the fuperfluitie
Of wealth, in new defires conlumes his heart :
For 'tis an empty mind inflicts the curfe
Of poverty, and not an empty purfe.
HOW TO OPPOSE SINISTER FATE.
If of miffortune you fuppofe t'exoner,
By any other meanes then thole of vertue,
Your troubled fpirit, you bellow upon her
Both your own fkill, and weapons to iubvert you ;
For that, wherewith you 'magine to refill,
Her furie, is already in her hand ;
And which ilie holds extended to your breait,
To make you plyable to her command.
It is not then great friends, nobilitie,
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