Social Commentaries
Scribere jussit Amor — Ad Candidum Scriptorem
From Poems on Several Occasions (1689)
Social Commentaries
Ut tibi versiculos recito, tu, Candide, scribis:
Carmina si mea sunt, sunt tua scripta tamen.
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Cotton, Charles. “Scribere jussit Amor — Ad Candidum Scriptorem.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/97/.
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Cotton, Charles. “Scribere jussit Amor — Ad Candidum Scriptorem.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/97/.
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