Social Commentaries
Epigram 5 (Why striue ye sisters for antiquitie?)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 4
Social Commentaries
Why striue ye sisters for antiquitie?
Can not your present honour you suffice?
Why striue ye sisters for that vanitie.
Which if ye sawe as twas, you would despise?
You must make loue: loue is your surest hold,
Others must honour you and make you olde.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 5 (Why striue ye sisters for antiquitie?).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/125/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 5 (Why striue ye sisters for antiquitie?).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/125/.
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