1596 in poetry

	… 1586; 1587; 1588; 1589; 1590; 1591; 1592; ; 1593; 1594; 1595; 1596; 1597; 1598; 1599; ; 1600; 1601; 1602; 1603; 1604; 1605; 1606 …;
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From your confessor, lawyer and physician,
Hide not your case on no condition

— From Sir John Harington, A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax

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