Social Commentaries
A Cure for Impatience
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Who Patience wants, a Rod to him preferre,
And let him Angler turne, or Schoole-master.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “A Cure for Impatience.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/120/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “A Cure for Impatience.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/120/.
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