Social Commentaries
To Francis Quarles
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
My Muse did purpose with a pious strife
To have trac'd out my sinlesse Saviours life:
But thou hadst lanch'd into the Maine (I heare)
Before my Barke was rigg'd; which shall forbeare
To interrupt so prais'd an enterprize,
('Bout which with Quarles no quarrells shall arise)
Ply then thy steereage, while deficient gales
My wishes still supply, and swell thy sailes.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Francis Quarles.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/202/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Francis Quarles.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/202/.
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