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Epigram 92. Of Caesar and Cleopatra

by Sir Aston Cokain 1608–1684

From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)

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Great Caesars vaunt is known to all, who said,
That he did come, look't on, and conquered:
But when to Egypt he did come from Rome,
And saw the Queen, he then was overcome:
But (to prove rather he was not beguil'd)
Her he o'recame; for he got her with childe.

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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 92. Of Caesar and Cleopatra.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/136/.

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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 92. Of Caesar and Cleopatra.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/136/.

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