Social Commentaries
The English, too like the French
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
A Writer, skill'd in Constellations, notes
That England is ore-rul'd by Mercury:
Which I beleeve, for Delos-like it floats
In the wav'd humours of inconstancy.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “The English, too like the French.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/187/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “The English, too like the French.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/187/.
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