Social Commentaries
To Shakespeare
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Thy Muses sugred dainties seeme to us
Like the fam'd Apples of old Tantalus:
For we (admiring) see and heare thy straines,
But none I see or heare, those sweets attaines.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Shakespeare.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/96/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Shakespeare.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/96/.
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