Social Commentaries
To Thomas May of Sutton-Cheney, Gentleman
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Sweet Tom, that (like that Minion Earine,
Whose Beauty great Domitian held divine)
Dost in thy name the youth and pleasure beare,
Beauty and lovelinesse of all the yeare;
Yet in thy gall-lesse temper dost imply
More sweetnesse, than that Name doth signifie:
My true heart loves thee, (what can more be said?)
Were I but Iove, thou wert my Ganymed.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Thomas May of Sutton-Cheney, Gentleman.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/23/.
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