Social Commentaries
Epigram 33 (Olde hand in handes saluting now is past,)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 2
Social Commentaries
Olde hand in handes saluting now is past,
And friendes embracing armes in armes do cast.
Why? cause the body is the better part?
Or we would feele our friends neerer the heart?
Or that our friends as flitting to and fro
Our armes may hold, our hands would let them go?
Yet were the auncient friendship now of force,
Our armefull, for their handfull I would scorse.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 33 (Olde hand in handes saluting now is past,).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/73/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 33 (Olde hand in handes saluting now is past,).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/73/.
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