Social Commentaries
Epigram 22 (If a poore minister haue done amisse,)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 7
Social Commentaries
If a poore minister haue done amisse,
Then his high calling is obiected to him
High to all wrong I grant our calling is,
And great and wonderous to our vndoing,
But they which set vs high to all disgrace,
In honour put vs to the lowest place.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 22 (If a poore minister haue done amisse,).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/262/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 22 (If a poore minister haue done amisse,).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/262/.
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