Love
Madrigal (To be a Whore, despight of Grace)
From Poems on Several Occasions (1689)
Love
To be a Whore, despight of Grace,
Good Counsel and an ugly face,
And to distribute still the Pox,
To men of wit
Will seem a kind of Paradox;
And yet
Thou art a Whore, despight of Grace,
Good Counsel and an ugly face.
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MLA
Cotton, Charles. “Madrigal (To be a Whore, despight of Grace).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/27/.
Chicago
Cotton, Charles. “Madrigal (To be a Whore, despight of Grace).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/27/.
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