Social Commentaries
To Sir Gilbert Knyveton. ANAGRAMME. Turne to be Kingly
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
HE that can rule his little Ile of Man,
(Girt with a waving Maine of misery,
And his affects to lawes of Reason can
Rightly submit, may claime a Monarchy;
And by such Empire may more honour gaine
Than he that serves his Gold, yet Masters Spaine.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Sir Gilbert Knyveton. ANAGRAMME. Turne to be Kingly.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/53/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Sir Gilbert Knyveton. ANAGRAMME. Turne to be Kingly.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/53/.
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