Social Commentaries
Riddle me this. An Embleame including the Authors name
From A Strappado for the Divell (1615)
Social Commentaries
Two waies there be, one broade, the other straite,
which two beat paths leade to a distinct state
Of weale, of woe: this if you right explaine,
the first, though worst, includes the Authors name.
A Brea, a Banke, a Border, or a Shore,
Smiles on his name that brought these Satires ore.
His Crest a Cuckolds Crosse: his Motto, Heere
I giue a Badge which Citizens de weare.
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MLA
Brathwaite, Richard. “Riddle me this. An Embleame including the Authors name.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/67/.
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Brathwaite, Richard. “Riddle me this. An Embleame including the Authors name.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/67/.
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