Social Commentaries

Epigramme de Monsieur Maynard

by Charles Cotton 1630–1687

From Poems on Several Occasions (1689)

Social Commentaries

Old Fop, why should you take such pains
To paint and Perriwig it so?
My nobler love, alas! disdains
To stoop so infamously low.

Time, that does mow the fairest Flow'rs,
Has made so very bold with yours,
You should expect to be deni'd;
The Footmen can no more endure ye,
And if no sport in Hell, assure ye,
You'll never more be occupi'd.

MLA

Cotton, Charles. “Epigramme de Monsieur Maynard.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/56/.

Chicago

Cotton, Charles. “Epigramme de Monsieur Maynard.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/56/.

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