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 "title": "The Liar",
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 "poet": "John Donne",
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 "language": "en",
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  "year": 1856,
  "venue": "Sir John Simeon, ed., Unpublished Poems of Donne (1856–7), as “Supping Hours”",
  "note": "Not in any of the old editions of the Poems. Grierson's commentary states that this epigram was first printed in Simeon's collection, whence Chambers took it into his Appendix A, and that the title used here comes from the Harleian manuscript. Simeon's volume has not been seen here, and Grierson dates it across two years, so the year is marked uncertain. Gosse also prints the poem in The Life and Letters of John Donne (1899), vol. I, p. 52.",
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  "sources": [
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  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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    "text": "Thou in the fields walk’st out thy supping hours",
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   {
    "text": "And yet thou swear’st thou hast supped like a king;",
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   {
    "text": "Like Nebuchadnezar perchance with grass and flowers,",
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    "text": "A salad worse then Spanish dieting.",
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