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To beggers of Bookes

My friend, you presse me very hard,
my bookes of me you craue;
I haue none, but in Pauls Church-yard,
for mony you may haue.
But why should I my coyne bestow
such toyes as these to buy?
I am not such a foole I trow:
forsooth no more am I.
— Sir John Harrington from The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams, 1618