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Prior: Epigrams
A TRUE MAID
No, no; for my virginity,
When I lose that, says Rose, I'll die:
Behind the elms, last night, cried Dick,
Rose, were you not extremely sick?
EPIGRAM
'MATTHEW TRIOR
To John I ow'd great obligation;
But John unhappily thought fit
To publish it to all the nation:
So John and I are more than quit.
ANOTHER
MATTHEW PRIOR
Yes, every poet is a fool;
By demonstration Ned can show it:
Happy, could Ned's inverted rule
Prove every fool to be a poci.
THE FIVE REASONS
MATTHEW PRIOR
If all be true that I do think,
There are Five Reasons we should drink:
Good Wine, a Friend, or being Dry,
Or lest we should be by and by;
Or any other Reason why.
HENRY AEDRfOH