Social Commentaries
To Dabbler
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Thy Muses looser Robes with many a tricke
Are jagg'd, pink't, stucke with Flowers of Rhetorick,
That smell all Poesie; yet please they none.
How happens that? they're out of fashion.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Dabbler.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/45/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Dabbler.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/45/.
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