Social Commentaries
Epigram 29 (Reader but halfe my labour is expirde,)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 4
Social Commentaries
Reader but halfe my labour is expirde,
And Poet, matter, witt and all are tyrde.
Thrise fiftie labours haue worne out my veyne,
An hundred meanings and an halfe remayne,
Heere would I rest were my first worke to doe.
Were the last at an end, heere would I to.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 29 (Reader but halfe my labour is expirde,).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/149/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 29 (Reader but halfe my labour is expirde,).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/149/.
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