To Sir Luckless Woo-All

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To Sir Luckless Woo-All by Ben Jonson

XLVI. ? TO SIR LUCKLESS WOO-ALL.     Is this the sir, who, some waste wife to win,  A knight-hood bought, to go a wooing in? 'Tis LUCKLESS, he that took up one on band  To pay at's day of marriage. By my hand The knight-wright's cheated then !  he'll never pay :  Yes, now he wears his knighthood every day.

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