Social Commentaries
In Poetam Hippodramum. Or Post-riding Poet
From A Strappado for the Divell (1615)
Social Commentaries
It tooke a Poet once I'th head to poast,
For what I know not, but I'me sure it cost
His purse far more (as I haue heard soms say)
Then ere his Muse was able to repay.
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Brathwaite, Richard. “In Poetam Hippodramum. Or Post-riding Poet.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/32/.
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Brathwaite, Richard. “In Poetam Hippodramum. Or Post-riding Poet.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/32/.
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