Social Commentaries
Epigram 26 (Morton whose face bewrayes antiquitie,)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 3
Social Commentaries
Morton whose face bewrayes antiquitie,
When men were goodly of proportion.
But in whose heart is true gentilitie,
In thee perfited, in thy race begonne.
Take these poore lines, as due to thy desart,
From him which owes to thee more then his heart,
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 26 (Morton whose face bewrayes antiquitie,).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/107/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 26 (Morton whose face bewrayes antiquitie,).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/107/.
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