Social Commentaries
Epigram 39 (Who taught me pleasant follies, can you tell?)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 6
Social Commentaries
Who taught me pleasant follies, can you tell?
I was not taught and yet I did excell.
T'is harde to learne without a president.
T'is harder to make folly excellent.
I sawe, yet had no light to guide mine eyes.
I was extold for that which all despise.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 39 (Who taught me pleasant follies, can you tell?).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/239/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 39 (Who taught me pleasant follies, can you tell?).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/239/.
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