Social Commentaries
To Plots, a pretender to the Mathematicks
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Thou sai'st, thou by thy figur'd Art dost know
How much broad cloath about the earth will go.
But would thy Charity a garment make
For it, in honor might'st thou equall Drake,
When Fame should say of two such men of note,
Drake made the earth a girdle, Plots a coate.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Plots, a pretender to the Mathematicks.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/176/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Plots, a pretender to the Mathematicks.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/176/.
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