Social Commentaries
In Syllam
From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)
Social Commentaries
Sylla is often challenged to the field,
To answer as a gentleman, his foes:
But then he doth this answer onely yeeld,--
That he hath livings and faire lands to lose.
Silla, if none but beggars valiant were,
The King of Spaine would put us all in feare.
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