Social Commentaries
Epigram 87. To Henry Right of the Cock in Poulesworth
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.
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