Social Commentaries
To the same (Though Epigrammes be but a curter kind)
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Though Epigrammes be but a curter kind
Of Satyres, striking on as sharpe a string,
To Dysticks or Tetrasticks doe not bind
My free-borne Muse, for youth would have his swing,
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To the same (Though Epigrammes be but a curter kind).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/2/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To the same (Though Epigrammes be but a curter kind).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/2/.
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