Social Commentaries
Epigram 16 (Reader, there is no biting in my verse;)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 2
Social Commentaries
Reader, there is no biting in my verse;
No gall, no wormewood, no cause of offence.
And yet there is a biting I confesse
And sharpenesse tempred to a wholsome sense.
Such are my Epigrams well vnderstood,
As salt which bites the wound, but doth it good.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 16 (Reader, there is no biting in my verse;).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/56/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 16 (Reader, there is no biting in my verse;).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/56/.
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