Social Commentaries
Epigram 38 (Seuerus hates my pens lycentious grace.)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 3
Social Commentaries
Seuerus hates my pens lycentious grace.
He liked not of my gadding poetry.
He tearmes my writing like the wildgoose race,
In fine he saith that all is vanity.
Away saith he, I like not this redundance,
Away with him, a Poet is abundance.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 38 (Seuerus hates my pens lycentious grace.).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/119/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 38 (Seuerus hates my pens lycentious grace.).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/119/.
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