Social Commentaries
In Numularium antiphylon
From A Strappado for the Divell (1615)
Social Commentaries
Cash-coind? its true; but he intends to be
The stamper of that Coine is due to me.
Pray thee (my friend) forbeare to set it on,
(My stampe I meane) till I haue throughly done:
And I protest to thee, when I haue ended,
I'le yeeld to thee, if she say thou canst mend it.
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Brathwaite, Richard. “In Numularium antiphylon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/33/.
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Brathwaite, Richard. “In Numularium antiphylon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/33/.
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