Social Commentaries

To the Worshipfull Recorder of Kendall

by Richard Brathwaite 1588?–1673

From A Strappado for the Divell (1615)

Social Commentaries

For Townes-abuses (worshipfull Recorder)
I leaue them to your discreet selfe to order:
My Iourney's at an end; hic baculum fixi,
My Tale concluded, nought now rests but Dixi
Nor would I haue you speak that, (though you may)
"Which I haue heard a countrie Maior did say,
Vnto a Scholler, who concluded had
His latine speech with Dixi I haue sayd:
To whom th'vnletter'd Maior to aproue the same
Replying thus, tooke Dixi for his name.
"If that thy name be Dixi sure I am,
Dixi's a learned vnderstanding man.

MLA

Brathwaite, Richard. “To the Worshipfull Recorder of Kendall.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/48/.

Chicago

Brathwaite, Richard. “To the Worshipfull Recorder of Kendall.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/48/.

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