Social Commentaries
Epigram 40. To the Popes
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Social Commentaries
Princes you are, have Dukedomes, two, or three;
I wish you would give one of them to me:
But that were to rob Peter to give Paul,
Or rather to rob both of them for Saul:
For I a Lay-man am, and (which is worse)
I think a Poet, by my empty purse.
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MLA
Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 40. To the Popes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/207/.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 40. To the Popes.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/207/.
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