Social Commentaries
Ingrossers
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
How doe you shave the City 'gainst the haire!
And even would intercept the common Ayre,
Were't in your power! yet you leave us breath,
To fly in ourses after you to death.
But sith you put us to such publicke losse,
Take all our faults too, and be knaves in grosse.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Ingrossers.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/46/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Ingrossers.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/46/.
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