Social Commentaries
Epigram 7 (Gods name is bare of honour in our ...)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 6
Social Commentaries
Gods name is bare of honour in our hearing,
And euen worne out with our blasphemous swearing.
Betweene the infant & the aged both
The first and last they vtter, is an oath.
O hellishe manners of our prophane age.
Iehouahs feare is scoft vpon the stage,
The Minicke iester, names it euery day.
Vnlesse God be blasphem'de, it is no play.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 7 (Gods name is bare of honour in our ...).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/207/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 7 (Gods name is bare of honour in our ...).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/207/.
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