Social Commentaries
Epigram 7 (If my bookes easie of digestion be,)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 7
Social Commentaries
If my bookes easie of digestion be,
Thanke not my matter reader but thanke me,
How many verses haue I cancelled?
Howe many lompes of meaning seasoned.
I suffer Epigrams to sprowte forth, when
I vse mine arte, and prune them with my pen.
For he that will write Epigrams indeed,
Must vse to wring the meaning till it bleede.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 7 (If my bookes easie of digestion be,).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/280/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 7 (If my bookes easie of digestion be,).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/280/.
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