Poem by John Harington

Slander

Against bad tongues goodness cannot defend her,
Those be most free from faults they least will spare,
But prate of them whom they have scantly known,
Judging their humors to be like their own.

1. On the Wares in Ireland
2. Ingratitude
3. An Elegy of a Pointed Diamond Given by the Author to His Wife at the Birth of His Eldest Son
4. Beauty
5. Of Treason

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