Social Commentaries
Epigram 28 (So harde it was for Poets to reiect,)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 2
Social Commentaries
So harde it was for Poets to reiect,
The once conceiued issue of their braine,
As for a mother her babe to neglect,
For whom in trauayling she tooke such paine.
Then if we loue out faultes for our owne sake.
Loue doth but loue the child, which loue did make.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 28 (So harde it was for Poets to reiect,).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/68/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 28 (So harde it was for Poets to reiect,).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/68/.
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