Social Commentaries
Epigram 26 (I Want an hundred pounds: my bookes I ...)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 2
I Want an hundred pounds: my bookes I seeke.
Their answere is; that learning hath a fall:
I seeke my braines: conceipts be so good cheepe,
One dramme of siluer may buy head and all.
Then to the Muses I amased flye.
They tell me Homers case and others more.
Then to my bookes againe as fast I hie.
And backe againe as wretched as before.
Betraying studies standing few in steede;
Why doe ye this forsake me in my neede?
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MLA
Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 26 (I Want an hundred pounds: my bookes I ...).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/66/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 26 (I Want an hundred pounds: my bookes I ...).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/66/.
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