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Epigram 22 (Reader, I grant I doe not keepe the ...)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 4
Social Commentaries
Reader, I grant I doe not keepe the lawes,
Of riming in my verse: but I haue cause:
I turne the pleasure of the ende sometimes,
Least he that likes them not should call thē rymes.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 22 (Reader, I grant I doe not keepe the ...).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/142/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 22 (Reader, I grant I doe not keepe the ...).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/142/.
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