Social Commentaries

Epigram 9 (Is it a worthy thing to digge vp ...)

by Thomas Bastard 1565/6–1618

From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 4

Social Commentaries

Is it a worthy thing to digge vp bones?
To kisse, t'adore the reliques of dead men?
Alas how foolish were those sily ones,
Which in times past did nought but burie them?
But they perhaps for stinke did then refraine:
But you doe worse to make them stinke againe.
Yet in the very stinking this is odd.
They stank to men then, now they stinke to God.

MLA

Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 9 (Is it a worthy thing to digge vp ...).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/129/.

Chicago

Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 9 (Is it a worthy thing to digge vp ...).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/129/.

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