Social Commentaries
The greatest Clerkes, not the wisest men
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
What fancies float in some mens heads! as those
That in the Dragon and great Beare suppose
Some Stars to shine, whose power hales amayne
The marine waters towr'd the Arcticke wayne:
Which were to make that payre of Beasts to draw
More than all ere were yoak'd, or Nature saw.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “The greatest Clerkes, not the wisest men.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/152/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “The greatest Clerkes, not the wisest men.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/152/.
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