Arts & Sciences
Vpon the Presse
From A Strappado for the Divell (1615)
Arts & Sciences
Tride would I bin byth' Country, Bench, & Prince,
Yet but a month agoe, no longer since,
Was I for speaking (as it may be thought)
And not for silence to the presse thus brought,
Iudge you my friends what conscience there is in't:
By th' weights I beare the errors of the Print.
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Brathwaite, Richard. “Vpon the Presse.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/59/.
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Brathwaite, Richard. “Vpon the Presse.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/59/.
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