Social Commentaries

Epigram 3 (Though choise of faultes, and purest vice selected)

by Thomas Bastard 1565/6–1618

From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 5

Social Commentaries

Though choise of faultes, and purest vice selected
Be my bookes subiect here by me detected:
Yet he that blames the writer is not wise.
He giues vice a person, not persons vice.

MLA

Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 3 (Though choise of faultes, and purest vice selected).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/163/.

Chicago

Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 3 (Though choise of faultes, and purest vice selected).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/163/.

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