Social Commentaries
Epigram 112. To Momus
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Social Commentaries
Momus doth grumble; Prethee spare me not:
Th' excception's just thou hast against me got.
I writ Catullus, and the other two,
Were all of them Contemporaries, tis true:
Valerius ere they flourish'd dy'd, I know it;
Poets may feign, in that hold me a Poet:
With truth of History I was too bold,
As men tye knots on Ropes to make them hold.
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