Social Commentaries
Epigram 28 (They which reade Horace Virgill and the rest,)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 1
Social Commentaries
They which reade Horace Virgill and the rest,
Of ancient Poets; all new wits detest:
And say O times; what happy wits were then,
I say, O fooles; rather what happy men.
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