Social Commentaries

Epigram 87. To Henry Right of the Cock in Poulesworth

by Sir Aston Cokain 1608–1684

From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)

Social Commentaries

Harry, what ere thou dost (by day or night)
(Though it be never so amiss) th' art Right:
Though some for doing wrong taxe thee in spight,
Contemn their malice; for th' art known t' be Right.
Let thy Guests sober go to bed, not fight,
And all thy reckonings be as thou art, Right:
And lead an upright life, that thou mayst light
On Heaven at last, and there thou t' be most Right.

MLA

Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 87. To Henry Right of the Cock in Poulesworth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/253/.

Chicago

Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 87. To Henry Right of the Cock in Poulesworth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/253/.

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