Social Commentaries
Epigram 30 (Vpon the plaine as I rode all alone,)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 6
Social Commentaries
Vpon the plaine as I rode all alone,
Assaulted by two sturdie lads I was.
I am a poore man Sires, let me be gone.
Nay, but ye shall be poore before ye passe.
And so I was: yet lost nothing thereby.
Would they had robde me of my pouerty.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 30 (Vpon the plaine as I rode all alone,).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/230/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 30 (Vpon the plaine as I rode all alone,).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/230/.
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