Social Commentaries
Epigram 2. To the Reader
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Social Commentaries
Though (Generous Reader) now and then I write
Verses that justly may appear too light:
Yet on my word (and you may credit me)
In jest I make them for varietie;
And do protest to all censorious men,
They flow not from my heart, but from my Pen.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 2. To the Reader.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/45/.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 2. To the Reader.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/45/.
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