Social Commentaries
On a French Knight, and Mistris Wolsley
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
A wanton Knight, borne, wed, and curst in France,
Came to our English Court, and there by chance
Wooes, and re-weds a faire and vertuous Maid:
Which wrong of love being by time bewray'd,
He (lest his Weddings Destiny should turne
To Hanging) leaves his second choice to mourne:
Who Wife, nor Widow, Maid nor Whore doth prove.
What is she then? a Quintessence in love.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On a French Knight, and Mistris Wolsley.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/51/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “On a French Knight, and Mistris Wolsley.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/51/.
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