Social Commentaries
To Master Thomas Lightwood
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Names should give light to things, and so doth thine
To thee, yet to obscurenesse doth oncline,
And falsehood too: for waighty dost thou prove,
That solid art in Learning, sound in Love.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Master Thomas Lightwood.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/197/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Master Thomas Lightwood.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/197/.
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