Social Commentaries
To Th. Ch. Esquire
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Your noble Genius holds (as doth appeare)
The very shadows of the Muses deare,
Who with proud maintenance have leaven'd those,
That scarce will give you thankes in humble Prose,
Nor in high Verse can doe't: So on a sinke
Shines lovely Phoebus, though his object stinke.
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