Social Commentaries

Epigram 31 (Reader me thinkes that now I doe digresse,)

by Thomas Bastard 1565/6–1618

From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 2

Social Commentaries

Reader me thinkes that now I doe digresse,
Presuming thus to talke of Maiesty.
Which in things easie could my minde expresse,
And dandle little meanings pretily,
For now I loose my proper veynes delight,
Which things vnproper to my veyne rehearse,
Thus I attempting those things to recyte,
Which come not in my compasse of my verse,
In such a plot, cannot make matter faye.
Where so much matter must be cast away.

MLA

Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 31 (Reader me thinkes that now I doe digresse,).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/71/.

Chicago

Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 31 (Reader me thinkes that now I doe digresse,).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/71/.

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