Social Commentaries
Epigram 41 (Biting Sabellus hereat takes offence,)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 7
Social Commentaries
Biting Sabellus hereat takes offence,
Because I lay not open all my sense.
All must be plaine, and nothing I must hide,
There must be notes at ende, and notes by side.
There must be nothing fett, and nothing strayned,
The reader must delighted be, not payned,
But I am of an other minde, for why
Should not he take some paines a well as I?
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 41 (Biting Sabellus hereat takes offence,).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/281/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 41 (Biting Sabellus hereat takes offence,).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/281/.
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