Social Commentaries

To Master Farnaby

by Thomas Bancroft fl. 1633–1658

From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I

Social Commentaries

Sith by the labour of thy smoothing hand
We thinke we doe rough Persius understand,
The Criticke-vext Petronius, Iuvenal,
The full-mouth'd Maro, witty Martial.
The Tragedies of high-strain'd Seneca,
The noble Lucans brave Pharsalia,
With the wise Morals of the Stagyrite,
And Epigrammes which Grecian Muses write:
We ne're shall recompence thy paine; but Fame
Will cracke her Trumpet for't, and sound thy Name.

MLA

Bancroft, Thomas. “To Master Farnaby.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/40/.

Chicago

Bancroft, Thomas. “To Master Farnaby.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/40/.

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