Social Commentaries

On Greene-wit Gosling

by Thomas Bancroft fl. 1633–1658

From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I

Social Commentaries

Gosling did want his Courtly termes of late,
And did desire the wooing phrase to know:
But having tendered love, with scornfull hate
Hath beene repulst, and finds the way to woe.

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Bancroft, Thomas. “On Greene-wit Gosling.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/173/.

Chicago

Bancroft, Thomas. “On Greene-wit Gosling.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/173/.

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