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Epigram 35. To my Cousin Mr. Charles Cotton

by Sir Aston Cokain 1608–1684

From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)

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Pardon my boldness (Cousin) that defames
Your name among my trivial Epigrams:
Yet I before have sometimes us'd you thus;
For in my Eclogues you are Tityrus

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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 35. To my Cousin Mr. Charles Cotton.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/78/.

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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 35. To my Cousin Mr. Charles Cotton.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/78/.

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