Social Commentaries
To William Davenpore Esquire
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Some argue (as blind phantasie invents)
That active discords of the Elements,
Did worke the World up from its articke Masse:
But howsoere (to let that fiction passe)
Some verball jarres betwixt my selfe and you,
Have made a world of reall love ensue
In our affects. Which when I violate
By mixing friendship with one dramme of hate,
Let Phoebus give me for a Lawrell Crowne
A wreath of Snakes, to hisse my Poems downe.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To William Davenpore Esquire.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/437/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To William Davenpore Esquire.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/437/.
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