Arts & Sciences

Epigram 50. To my very good Friend Mr. Francis Lenton

by Sir Aston Cokain 1608–1684

From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)

Arts & Sciences

Sir, many years ago when you and I
Frequently kept together company
With Master Lightwood, and my Noble Brother
Sir Andrew Knyveton, and some few such other;
Tom Lightwood made each following Anagram
(Which I illustrated) upon your name,
While (at the Fleece in Covent Garden) we
Drank roundly Sack in Rosen Cans, and free.
There all was done in jest, and so was took:
Pray laugh at them again now in this book.

MLA

Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 50. To my very good Friend Mr. Francis Lenton.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/93/.

Chicago

Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 50. To my very good Friend Mr. Francis Lenton.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/93/.

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