Love

On Vpstart

by Charles Cotton 1630–1687

From Poems on Several Occasions (1689)

Love

Upstart last Term went up to Town,
There purchas'd Arms and brought them down.
With Welborne's then he his compares,
And with a horrid loudness swears
That his are best; for look, quoth he,
[…]ow gloriously mine gilded be;
Thine's but a Thred-bare Coat, he cry'd,
Compar'd to this, who then reply'd:
If my Coat be Thread-bare, or rent, or torn,
There's cause; than thine it has been longer worn.

MLA

Cotton, Charles. “On Vpstart.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/130/.

Chicago

Cotton, Charles. “On Vpstart.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/130/.

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