Social Commentaries
To the Slanderer, Stinks
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Could I but worke a Transformation strange
On thee, whose malice pricks and rankles so,
I would thy Carrion to a Thistle change,
Which Asses baite upon, and Rusticks mow.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To the Slanderer, Stinks.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/52/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To the Slanderer, Stinks.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/52/.
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