Social Commentaries

To My Approved Friend T. P.

by Richard Brathwaite 1588?–1673

From A Strappado for the Divell (1615)

Social Commentaries

If any Sergeant should my lines forestale,
Before they see my Patron enter bayle.
Ibid. —Where say,—
How Night by Night in seuerall roomes I lye,
And that my lines haue farre more Aer then I.

MLA

Brathwaite, Richard. “To My Approved Friend T. P.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/9/.

Chicago

Brathwaite, Richard. “To My Approved Friend T. P.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/9/.

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