Social Commentaries
Epigram 20 (Misus and Mopsa hardly could agree,)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 5
Social Commentaries
Misus and Mopsa hardly could agree,
Striuing about superioritie.
The text which sayth that man and wise are one.
Was the chiefe argument they stoode vpon.
She held they both one woman should become.
He held both should be man, and both but one.
So they contended dayly, but the the srife,
Could not be ended, till both were one wife.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 20 (Misus and Mopsa hardly could agree,).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/180/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 20 (Misus and Mopsa hardly could agree,).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/180/.
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