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