Social Commentaries
Epigram 33. Of Wakes, and May-Poles
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Social Commentaries
The Zelots here are grown so ignorant,
That they mistake Wakes for some ancient Saint,
They else would keep that Feast; For though they all
Would be cal'd Saints here, none in heaven they call:
Besides they May-Poles hate with all their Soul,
I think, because a Cardinal was a Pole.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 33. Of Wakes, and May-Poles.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/200/.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 33. Of Wakes, and May-Poles.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/200/.
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