Social Commentaries
Epigram 37 (T'Honour and blisse Deurox thou didst aspyre,)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 4
Social Commentaries
T'Honour and blisse Deurox thou didst aspyre,
By worthy means, though fortune not thy friend
Tooke from thy ioyes, what vertue did desire,
To giue thy life: but paide thee in thine ende.
Onely at this thy country doth repine,
That her reioycing is not ioynde with thine.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 37 (T'Honour and blisse Deurox thou didst aspyre,).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/157/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 37 (T'Honour and blisse Deurox thou didst aspyre,).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/157/.
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