Social Commentaries

Epigram 24 (Matho with angry countenance threatned me.)

by Thomas Bastard 1565/6–1618

From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 7

Social Commentaries

Matho with angry countenance threatned me.
For that I toucht him in a verse of mine.
I said I knewe it not, not so quoth he?
That can I shew: and pointed to the rime.
So he accusde himselfe, for had not he,
He might haue kept concealements close for me.

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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 24 (Matho with angry countenance threatned me.).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/264/.

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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 24 (Matho with angry countenance threatned me.).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/264/.

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