Social Commentaries
Epigram 40 (One sayde my booke was like vnto a ...)
From Chrestoleros (1598), Book 2
Social Commentaries
One sayde my booke was like vnto a coate,
Of diuerse colours blacke and red and white,
I bent to crosse him saide he spake by roate.
For they in making rather are vnlike.
A coate, one garment made of many fleeces.
My booke, one meaning cutt in many peeces.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 40 (One sayde my booke was like vnto a ...).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/79/.
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Bastard, Thomas. “Epigram 40 (One sayde my booke was like vnto a ...).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bastard/79/.
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