Social Commentaries
A Prince and a Parasite
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Like Cleopatra suckling of a Snake
Is that unhappy Prince, that much doth make
Of a base Parasite, that baskes in sinne,
And folds infection in a Lizards skinne.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “A Prince and a Parasite.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/168/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “A Prince and a Parasite.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/168/.
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