Love

Hymens Satyre

by Richard Brathwaite 1588?–1673

From A Strappado for the Divell (1615)

Love

Don Bassiano married now of late:
Has got his witlesse pate a faire estate,
Ist possible, Fortune should be so blind,
As of a world of men not one to find,
Worthy her training in her thriuing school
But an admired Wittall or a Foole?
It's true: why then Fortune's a partiall whoore,
To make the foolish rich, the wisest poore.
Whence we obserue (experience teacheth it)
The younger brother hath the elder wit,
Yea by example instanc'd euery where,
The Cockney-Cittie's rich, the Suburbs bare,
O then I see the Goulden age begins,
When fooles are mates for wisest Citizens.

MLA

Brathwaite, Richard. “Hymens Satyre.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/43/.

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Brathwaite, Richard. “Hymens Satyre.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/43/.

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