Social Commentaries
To old Canker, a wicked Gardener
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Our Grandsire in a Garden fell, where thou
All vicious licence dost thy selfe allow:
Nor can sharpe warnings penetrate thy heart,
That in thy Trade of lewdnesse rooted art.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To old Canker, a wicked Gardener.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/162/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To old Canker, a wicked Gardener.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/162/.
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