Another of the Same

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When as2 a book doth from the press come new,
All buy or borrow3 it, that4 book to view,
Not out of love of learning, or of wit,
But to find faults,5 that they may censure it.
Were there no faults for to be found therein6                    5
(As few there are, but do err in something),7
Yet Malice with her rankled spleen and spite
Will, at the time, or print or binding bite.
Like devils: when good souls they cannot8 get,
Then on their bodies they their witches set.                    10

  1. Another of the Same] [This poem is untitled in 1653.]
  2. as] that 1653
  3. buy or borrow] buyes, or borrows 1653
  4. that] this 1653
  5. faults,] Fault, 1664, 1668
  6. Were there no faults for to be found therein] For did no Faults at all therein appear, 1664; For, did no Faults at all therin appear, 1668
  7. (As few there are, but do err in something),] (Though few there are but do in something err) 1664; (Though few there are, but do in something err) 1668
  8. good souls they cannot ] they cannot good soules 1653