Social Commentaries
In Phylaetum
From A Strappado for the Divell (1615)
Social Commentaries
Phylaetus writing loue-lines on a day,
A Ratte came in and stole his lines away.
Phyletus slept on still, and minded ot
While th'hungry Ratte eat vp the lines he wrote;
If I were to be Iudge, as much may be,
The Rat should be in loue, Phyletus free,
That seeing th'saucy Rat to loue enthrall'd,
Loue-bayne heereafter might be Rats-baine call'd.
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Brathwaite, Richard. “In Phylaetum.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/34/.
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Brathwaite, Richard. “In Phylaetum.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/34/.
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