Social Commentaries
In Quintum (4)
From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)
Social Commentaries
Quintus the dancer useth euermore,
His feet in measure and in rule to moue:
Yet on a time he call'd his Mistresse, 'whore'
And thought with that sweet word to win her loue:
Oh had his tongue like to his feet beene taught
It neuer would haue uttered such a thought.
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